PMID: 15362546Sep 15, 2004Paper

Left ventricular free wall rupture

Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
Masahiro Endo, Hironobu Kurosawa

Abstract

Left ventricular (LV) free wall rupture is an uncommon but catastrophic event after acute myocardial infarction and is associated with a high mortality. Some patients may be salvaged with emergent operation. Padro et al. described a sutureless technique for the treatment of postinfarction LV free wall rupture. We have adopted a similar sutureless technique using a fibrin glue-oxycellulose fixation. A review of 32 patients during a 20-year period who were referred to coronary care unit (CCU) with postinfarction LV free wall rupture was conducted. There were 17 men and 15 women with an average age of 68.8 years. Nine patients were treated who having one-stage operation of simultaneous 7 ventricular septal perforation and 2 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Nine patients were sutured directly with a felt sandwich technique with or without cardiopulmonary bypass. Five patients were treated with pericardiectomy and pericardiocentesis using direct vision. Nine patients were sealed with sutureless method using fibrin glue-oxycellurose fixation without cardiopulmonary bypass. Eleven hospital deaths (34.4%, 11/32) were occurred in the all patints. However, 1 death (7.1%, 1/14) occurred in the pericardiectomy and in the sutureless ...Continue Reading

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