Ventricular septal rupture detected by cross‐sectional echocardiography
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- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Cardiology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 39-42
- https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.4960040109
Abstract
Cross‐sectional echocardiography was used to directly visualize abnormal wall motion and detect the site of ventricular septal rupture in a patient with acute inferior myocardial infarction. The presence of the defect was confirmed by injecting indocyanine green into the left ventricle at the time of cardiac catheterization. Cross‐sectional echocardiography provides a rapid, atraumatic means for evaluating patients with complicated acute myocardial infarction.Keywords
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