Echocardiographic findings of ventricular septal rupture in acute myocardial infarction. |
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Authors: | R L DeJoseph S F Seides A Lindner A N Damato |
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Affiliation: | From the Department of Medicine and the C. V. Richardson Laboratory of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, N. C. U.S.A |
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Abstract: | Echocardiograms were recorded both before and after the clinical appearance of an autopsy-confirmed interventricular septal rupture in a patient with an acute myocardial infarction. The major findings were related to the upper portion of the interventricular septum. Before rupture, this portion of the septum was relatively akinetic with a slight anterior motion during systole, whereas after rupture there was a marked increase in the amplitude of septal motion with abrupt posterior motion occurring with the onset of ventricular diastole. |
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Keywords: | Address for reprints: Ernest Craige MD Cardiac Laboratory North Carolina Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill N. C. 27514. |
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