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[Free-wall rupture during the acute phase of myocardial infarction. Apropos of 2 cases surgically treated with success].
The authors report two cases of cardiac rupture during acute myocardial infarction successfully treated surgically. In the first case, rupture occurred 7 days after hospital admission for anteroseptal myocardial infarction. The patient developed sudden cardiogenic shock with signs of venous hypertension without left ventricular failure. The second patient was admitted for syncopal chest pain with transient hypotension which regressed after volume repletion and pressor amine therapy. On admission, the patient had signs of cardiac tamponade. The ECG showed recent inferolaterobasal myocardial infarction. In both cases the diagnosis was made by 2D echocardiography which showed voluminous circumferential pericardial effusions probably due to haemorrage, with an image very suggestive of a blood clot in the effusion of the second patient. The two patients underwent emergency cardiac surgery and both survived with a 4 and 1.5 month follow-up respectively. These two cases confirm the value of 2D echocardiography as an emergency bedside procedure for the diagnosis of cardiac rupture, especially when images of intrapericardial thrombosis are observed, as in our second patient. In addition, the first case raises once again the question of the role of late thrombolysis as a predisposing factor of cardiac rupture at a time when this technique is proposed up to 24 hours after the onset of symptoms.
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