Conservative Treatment for Right Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in a Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Firdaus MAM 1 , Rahim NSA 2 , Rusdi N 2 , Idris NS 3 , Mohd Said MR 2 , Abidin IZ 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University Malaya Medical Centre, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Radiology, University Malaya Medical Centre, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Case Rep Cardiol, 2020;2020:8836627.
PMID: 32774930 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8836627

Abstract

Ventricular wall rupture possesses a high mortality rate in patients with acute myocardial infarction. We presented a case of a ninety-year-old gentleman who presented with acute inferolateral myocardial infarction in cardiogenic shock and right ventricular free wall rupture. He was treated conservatively and survived.

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