SURGICAL-TREATMENT OF VENTRICULAR SEPTAL PERFORATION WITH RIGHT-VENTRICULAR INFARCTION

Authors
SUGIMOTO T OGAWA K ASADA T MUKOHARA N HIGAMI T OBO H KAWAMURA T
Citation
T. Sugimoto et al., SURGICAL-TREATMENT OF VENTRICULAR SEPTAL PERFORATION WITH RIGHT-VENTRICULAR INFARCTION, Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 37(1), 1996, pp. 71-74
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System",Surgery
Journal title
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00219509
Volume
37
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
71 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9509(1996)37:1<71:SOVSPW>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A 71-year-old woman underwent an emergency surgery for ventricular sep tal perforation together with right ventricular infarction. The perfor ation of the anterior septum was closed using. Dacron patch combined w ith a little larger bovine pericardium, the surplus of which was stitc hed in the surrounding viable muscle. This procedure was performed onl y through the infarct of the right ventricle. She has been doing well with no residual shunt and lives a normal life now.