Key result
Glued pericardial patch repair successfully treats postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture without sutures.
Case Report (n=1)
May enable sutureless repair of post-MI LV free wall rupture; leaves open need for larger prospective studies.
In a 68-year-old man admitted in deep shock, prompt echocardiographic diagnosis of postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture was followed by probably life-saving pericardiocentesis. At emergency surgery a 2 cm linear tear in the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle was successfully repaired with a glued-on pericardial patch, without infarctectomy or placement of sutures in the infarcted area.
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Almdahl et al. (1993) conducted a case report in Postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture (n=1). Glued-on pericardial patch repair was evaluated on Successful repair. Emergency surgery using a glued-on pericardial patch successfully repaired a postinfarction left ventricular free wall rupture without infarctectomy or sutures in the infarcted area.
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