TY - JOUR
T1 - Left Ventricular Rupture in a Patient with Coexisting Right Ventricular Infarction
AU - Greenberg, Mark A.
AU - Gitler, Bernard
PY - 1983/9/1
Y1 - 1983/9/1
N2 - CARDIAC rupture, although usually an acute catastrophic event, may be subacute, so that diagnosis and surgical treatment of cardiac tamponade and the underlying myocardial tear is possible.1 2 3 The diagnosis of cardiac tamponade depends on clinical and hemodynamic evaluation. Although the clinical presentation of hypotension, distended neck veins, and pulsus paradoxus is characteristic of tamponade,4 these findings may also be present in right ventricular infarction.5,6 Equalization of right atrial and pulmonary capillary wedge pressures may occur in right ventricular infarction as well as cardiac tamponade, thus making differentiation difficult. In a recent series, 4 of 12 patients with right ventricular infarction.
AB - CARDIAC rupture, although usually an acute catastrophic event, may be subacute, so that diagnosis and surgical treatment of cardiac tamponade and the underlying myocardial tear is possible.1 2 3 The diagnosis of cardiac tamponade depends on clinical and hemodynamic evaluation. Although the clinical presentation of hypotension, distended neck veins, and pulsus paradoxus is characteristic of tamponade,4 these findings may also be present in right ventricular infarction.5,6 Equalization of right atrial and pulmonary capillary wedge pressures may occur in right ventricular infarction as well as cardiac tamponade, thus making differentiation difficult. In a recent series, 4 of 12 patients with right ventricular infarction.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198309013090907
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198309013090907
M3 - Article
C2 - 6877324
AN - SCOPUS:0020514899
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 309
SP - 539
EP - 542
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 9
ER -