Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography are valuable tools for identifying complex, coexisting mechanical complications following myocardial infarction.
Echocardiography can detect rare coexisting post-MI complications; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
An aneurysm, pseudoaneurysm, and interventricular septal rupture were detected by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in a 61-year-old man with anterior myocardial infarction. This case illustrates the value of these techniques in the assessment of mechanical complications associated with myocardial infarction.
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