A Case Report of a Double Catastrophe: True Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Ventricular Septal Rupture Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction and Presenting as Chronic Heart Failure

A combination of left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) and ventricular septal rupture (VSR) in an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patient presenting as heart failure is extremely rare. Here, we report a rare case of concurrent true inferoposterior LVA and VSR secondary to inferior wall myocardial infarc...

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Published in:Cureus
Main Authors: Khanal, Suraj, Ghosh, Soumitra, Mishra, Anand K
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7707883/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33274165
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11292
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