Macroscopic Findings of a "Blow-out" Ventricular Free Wall Rupture
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Macroscopic Findings of a “Blow-out” Ventricular Free Wall Rupture
A 68-year-old man was admitted with continuous chest pain for >8 hours. The initial twelve-lead electrocardiogram (Picture 1) suggested an ongoing broad anterior myocardial infarction (MI). He suddenly began to suffer from severe hypotension with massive pericardial effusion (Picture 2A) before any emergent cardiac intervention could be performed and he died despite undergoing cardiopulmonary r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.8676-16