Spontaneous closure of ventricular septal defect complicated with acute myocardial infarction.
Echocardiography
; 25(7): 781-3, 2008 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-18476978
ABSTRACT
A 79-year-old man was followed in our hospital for 4 years following primary percutaneous coronary intervention at another hospital to deploy two stents at the left anterior descending coronary artery for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). At the first visit in our hospital, echocardiography revealed a small ventricular septal defect (VSD, 0.8 to 1.0 cm) in the apicoseptal wall with an aneurysm that was probably the result of the AMI. There was no hemodynamic decompensation, and because the patient refused surgical correction we instead placed him under close follow-up observation in the outpatient clinic. A second follow-up echocardiography 6 months later still revealed a VSD. However, after 3 years the VSD murmur was no longer audible and follow-up echocardiography showed the defect to be nearly closed.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Comunicação Interventricular
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Infarto do Miocárdio
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Echocardiography
Assunto da revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
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DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article