Why the study?
What are the clinical, hemodynamic, and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in patients with postinfarction ventricular septal rupture?
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25 patients who suffered ventricular septal rupture out of a prospective cohort of 1264 consecutive patients…
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Inferior MI location and RV dysfunction were associated with higher mortality in postinfarction VSR; leaves open whether RV assessment should guide management.
What are the clinical, hemodynamic, and echocardiographic predictors of mortality in patients with postinfarction ventricular septal rupture?
In patients with postinfarction ventricular septal rupture, mortality is higher following inferior compared to anterior MI, and is strongly predicted by combined right ventricular and septal dysfunction.
Moore et al. (1986) studied this question.