CT imaging of post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect with a contained rupture/pseudoaneurysm

This is a CT imaging study of a 63-year-old female who presented to our center with ST segment elevation MI and was found to have life threatening post-MI ventricular septal defect with associated pseudoaneurysm, which was detected on cardiac CTA. The patient refused surgical management and had a su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Agarwal, Chirag, Goel, Sunny, Jacobi, Adam, Love, Barry, Sanz, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
Materias:
Images in Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26995413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2015.07.035
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Sumario:This is a CT imaging study of a 63-year-old female who presented to our center with ST segment elevation MI and was found to have life threatening post-MI ventricular septal defect with associated pseudoaneurysm, which was detected on cardiac CTA. The patient refused surgical management and had a successful percutaneous VSD repair.

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