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Document a rare clinical presentation of an acquired interventricular septal perforation complicating myocardial infarction accompanied by partial heart block.

January 6, 1949New England Journal of Medicine

Perforation of Infarcted Interventricular Septum, with Partial Heart Block

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1 patient with an acquired interventricular defect at the site of a high septal infarct, associated with…

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RFRalph V. FordGeorgia Institute of Technology

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Implication

May prompt consideration of septal perforation in post-MI conduction block; extends rare case literature but leaves incidence and management open.

Key Points

Document a rare clinical presentation of an acquired interventricular septal perforation complicating myocardial infarction accompanied by partial heart block.
Clinical and diagnostic evaluation of a patient presenting with an acquired defect high in the interventricular septum after myocardial infarction.
Review of historical medical literature covering 53 previously reported cases of post-infarction septal perforations and associated conduction abnormalities.
Identified an acquired ventricular septal perforation located high in the septum that presented with a characteristic systolic murmur and partial heart block.
Found that conduction disturbances are exceptionally rare in infarcted septal ruptures, with only two prior cases documented in the literature.

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Population

1 patient with an acquired interventricular defect at the site of a high septal infarct, associated with partial heart block and a systolic murmur

This case report adds to the rare literature on interventricular septal perforations due to myocardial infarction presenting with clinically detected conduction disturbances.

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Ralph V. Ford (1949) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9184846d69645d56f084cb https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194901062400103

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May prompt consideration of septal perforation in post-MI conduction block; extends rare case literature but leaves incidence and management open.

Perforation of Infarcted Interventricular Septum, with Partial Heart Block

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Perforation of Infarcted Interventricular Septum, with Partial Heart Block

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