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  • Title: Transcatheter closures of a postinfarction ventricular septal defect and late ventricular pseudoaneurysm.
    Author: Lin CH, Balzer D, Lasala J.
    Journal: J Invasive Cardiol; 2010 Jul; 22(7):E132-7. PubMed ID: 20603516.
    Abstract:
    An 83-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease presented with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. During coronary intervention, she was found to have a ventricular septal rupture, but was felt not to be a surgical candidate due to advanced shock. She was offered transcatheter repair using an Amplatzer post-infarction muscular ventricular septal defect occluder and recovered completely. She was discharged, but returned four months later with chest pain. A cardiac CT and contrast-enhanced echocardiogram revealed a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. She underwent transcatheter repair using an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II and recovered without further sequelae.
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