Key result
Subacute LV rupture in RV infarction complicates clinical and hemodynamic differentiation from cardiac tamponade.
Population
A patient with left ventricular rupture and coexisting right ventricular infarction
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to subacute LV rupture mimicking tamponade in RV infarction; case report leaves open prospective validation of diagnostic criteria.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the diagnostic challenge of differentiating cardiac tamponade from right ventricular infarction due to overlapping clinical and hemodynamic presentations.
Greenberg et al. (1983) conducted a case report in Left Ventricular Rupture and Right Ventricular Infarction (n=1). Left ventricular rupture can present subacutely in a patient with right ventricular infarction, complicating the clinical and hemodynamic differentiation from cardiac tamponade.
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