Right ventricular wall dissection complicating myocardial infarction.

J Card Surg

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Published: December 2022

Right ventricular wall dissection is extremely rare and can result in dismal clinical outcomes. We report a 68-year-old patient who presented with acute myocardial infarction and was found to have right ventricular wall dissection by ventriculography. At surgery, the infarcted myocardium was excised, and a two-patch technique was used to repair the ventricular septal defect.

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