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The mortality rate of post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect remains considerable despite decreasing overall acute myocardial infarction mortality.
Post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect remains a highly lethal complication with a poor prognosis despite advances in surgical repair techniques.
Post-MI VSD carries high mortality with difficult management; case reports leave open optimal strategies.
Background:The mortality rate of ventricular septal defect post-myocardial infarction remains considerable, even if the mortality of acute myocardial infarction is decreasing in the recent decades.Ischemic ventricular septal defect is responsible for a considerable number of deaths in the immediate aftermath of a myocardial infarction. Cases presentation:We will illustrate this deadly complication of myocardial infarction through tree cases.Their treatment was difficult and the prognosis was bad, two out of three patients died. Conclusion:the choice of the means of closing the ventricular septal defect and the delay remains very difficult.Even if surgical repair techniques have evolved over time, the prognosis still very poor.
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