rupture of the free wall of the heart is one of the dangerous complications of myocardial infarction that usually results in death of the patient. only a few limited number of cases have been reported to have survived for a long period after myocardial infarction, free cardiac wall rupture and the following pseudo aneurysm. in this case report, a rare case of pseudo aneurysm following silent mi...

triggering of acute myocardial infarction   m. salehian [1]     abstract     coronary heart disease (chd) is the leading cause of death in the united states each year about 450.000 people die from chd, and 1.000.000 experience an initial or recurrent coronary event. plaque rupture and it's its subsequent thrombosis at the site of the plaque rupture is the most common underlying pathophysio...

blunt chest traumas mostly occur due to car accidents and can cause many cardiac complications such as septal rupture, free-wall rupture, coronary artery dissection or thrombosis, heart failure, arrhythmias, and chordae and papillary muscle rupture. one of the most serious complication is tricuspid regurgitation (tr), which can be simply diagnosed by physical examination and confirmed by echoca...

By S. R. INGLE Medical Officer, Mirajgaon (District Alimednagar) The rarity of such an injury and its medicolegal importance have prompted the publication of the following case :? History of the accident.?A driver of a motor-lorry with about a dozen passengers, while driving over a causeway about eight feet high, lost control of the car, with the result that it fell into the water (kneedeep) be...

SINCE the first description of rupture of the heart by William Harvey in 1647, this dramatic termination of life has attracted the attention of clinicians and pathologists alike. The anatomist Morgagni,' whose own life ended at the age of 79 with this disease, collected 10 cases in 1765. By 1928, 734 cases had been culled from the world literature by Davenport2 and subsequently many more review...