Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science

Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Yeungnam University Institute Medical Science (영남대 의대 학술지 편집위원회)
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Died immediately after corrective surgery for right ventricular acute myocardial infarction and ventricular septal rupture

  • Kim, Su-Mi (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Jung, Sung Yun (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Kim, Min-Jung (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Kwon, Tae Hun (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Choi, Kang-Un (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Kim, Byung-Jun (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Sohn, Jang Won (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Hong, Gue-Ru (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University Severance Hospital)
  • Received : 2013.06.24
  • Accepted : 2013.07.24
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare but fatal complication of acute myocardial infarction. In many cases, postinfarction VSR leads to hemodynamic instability and urgent surgical treatment is necessary. Here we describe a case of a patient with right ventricular (RV) dysfunction caused by acute RV infarction and with cardiogenic shock, whose condition improved after development of postinfarction VSR, but the patient died after corrective surgery.

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