Two-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography is a reliable tool for diagnosing and characterizing complex postinfarction ventricular septal ruptures, including those with right ventricular aneurysms.
Supports echocardiography for characterizing select post-MI VSR with RV aneurysm; leaves open routine diagnostic role pending larger studies.
Postinfarction ventricular septal defect is a life-threatening disorder that may be adequately treated if the diagnosis is obtained promptly. Two-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography is a reliable tool for this diagnosis and gives additional information regarding its location, size, and shape. The authors emphasize the feasibility of this method to depict a particular form of postinfarction interventricular septal rupture, which developed an aneurysm inside the right ventricular cavity. Its characteristics were completely defined by color Doppler echocardiography and confirmed at surgery. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 13, May 1996)
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