Multimodality cardiac imaging of a ventricular septal rupture post myocardial infarction: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Ventricular septal rupture (VSR), a mechanical complication following an acute myocardial infarction (MI), is thought to result from coagulation necrosis due to lack of collateral reperfusion. Although the gold standard test to confi...

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Main Authors: Dhaliwal Surinder, Ducas Robin, Shuangbo Liu, Horne David, Lee John, Hussain Farrukh, Kirkpatrick Iain DC, Jassal Davinder S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-10-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/583