Subacute cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction.

Survival after subacute cardiac rupture.

A 43-year-old man collapsed suddenly, with pericardial tamponade, seven weeks after an inferior myocardial infarction. Pericardiocentesis disclosed very heavily blood stained fluid. Left ventricular angiography 10 days later showed a left ventricular aneurysm. At operation a left ventricular false aneurysm was resected and the patient recovered uneventfully.

Syndecan-4 prevents cardiac rupture and dysfunction after myocardial infarction.

RATIONALE Syndecan-4 (Syn4), a cell-surface heparan sulfate proteoglycan, has been detected in the infarct region after myocardial infarction (MI), but its functional significance has not been elucidated. OBJECTIVE We examined whether and how Syn4 regulates the cardiac healing process after MI. METHODS AND RESULTS Although the heart in Syn4-deficient (Syn4(-/-)) mice was morphologically and...

Renin-angiotensin system and cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction.

Of all the mechanical complications after acute myocardial infarction (MI), cardiac rupture remains the most devastating, dramatic, and deadly. Continued improvements in the care of patients with acute MI have decreased the incidence of cardiac rupture over the past decade to under 3% in patients receiving reperfusion therapy,1 although autopsy evaluation of patients who died suddenly with acut...

[Myocardial rupture after acute myocardial infarction].

Cardiac rupture in post-myocardial infarction syndrome.

A fatal case of post-myocardial infarction syndrome (PMIS) followed by a rupture of an inferior left ventricular aneurysm is described. Attention is drawn to the growing number of reports of aneurysm in PMIS, and the clinico-pathological significance of this association is discussed.