Transcatheter closure of a postinfarction ventricular septal rupture

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2006 Nov;19(11):1401.e5-7. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.06.017.

Abstract

An 84-year-old woman with cardiomyopathy secondary to severe atherosclerotic coronary artery disease presented with biventricular heart failure. She was admitted to the hospital after a non-S-T elevation myocardial infarction 5 days earlier that led to progressive congestive heart failure. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed an apical ventricular septal defect with bidirectional shunting and pulmonary hypertension. Cardiovascular operation was declined; therefore, a post-infarction ventricular septal defect occluder device was placed across the ventricular septal defect leaving only a tiny residual shunt. The patient had symptomatic improvement after the procedure and had no complications related to the procedure.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
  • Embolization, Therapeutic / instrumentation*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography
  • Ventricular Septal Rupture / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Septal Rupture / etiology*
  • Ventricular Septal Rupture / therapy*