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153 postmortem cases with gross and histologic evidence of acute myocardial infarction from a…
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Suggests elevated rupture risk in women with fatal AMI; leaves open mechanisms and prevention strategies in broader populations.
Cardiac rupture is a frequent complication of acute myocardial infarction in sudden death cases (30.7%), occurring significantly more often in women and typically between 24 and 72 hours post-infarction.
Hutchins et al. (2002) studied this question.
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