Why the study?
Complications following acute MI such as VSR and LV aneurysm are rare and can be dreadful, and their simultaneous presence in the same patient is extremely rare.
This case highlights that concurrent ventricular septal rupture and left ventricular aneurysm can occur early after an inferior myocardial infarction and may present without cardiogenic shock.
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Warrants high clinical suspicion for mechanical complications even in hemodynamically stable post-MI patients;.
Drissa et al. (2023) studied this question.
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