Highlights the importance of color Doppler interrogation during transesophageal echocardiography for accurately diagnosing small cardiac ruptures post-myocardial infarction.
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May aid TEE detection of occult post-MI rupture; hypothesis-generating for routine color Doppler use.
This report describes a case of cardiac rupture following acute myocardial infarction accurately diagnosed by transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography, which showed a very narrow transmural tract from the left ventricle into the pseudoaneurysm cavity. Such a small, slitlike rupture would most likely have been missed by an otherwise routine transesophageal examination, and we stress the importance of color Doppler interrogation in its accurate diagnosis. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 13, May 1996)
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