Postmortem evaluation of morphologic changes in the infarcted myocardium that predict ventricular septal rupture in acute anteroseptal infarction

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 485-489

  Okabe, Masanori ^a   Fukuda, Keisuke ^a   Arakawa, Kikuo ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Free wall rupture; Infarct expansion; Ventricular septal rupture

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM RUPTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; PROGNOSIS; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL RUPTURE;

EID: 0348238771     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.485     Document Type: Article

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