Article
Emergency Surgical Repair of Post Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture Case Report
2020-11-19
Abstract excerpt
Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a life-threatening complication of trans-mural acute myocardial infarction (MI). Surgical intervention remains the treatment of choice, but it is still a challenging operation associated with high mortality (1). VSR is a rare serious complication of MI. Its incidence has been estimated between 1%¬ - 2% after MI. If it treated medically the mortality is very high (25% in 1st day,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 026f879f-a621-52fe-952a-6becb842da89
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.160579290.09385381/v1
