TY - JOUR
T1 - Left atrial hematoma complicating inferior myocardial infarction
AU - Kovacic, Jason Ciril
AU - Horton, Matthew David A.Court
AU - Campbell, Terence John
AU - Wilson, Stephanie Helen
PY - 2004/11
Y1 - 2004/11
N2 - Intramyocardial dissecting hematoma after myocardial infarction is a rare condition. Previous reports have documented that these hematomas form almost exclusively in the myocardium adjacent to the culprit coronary lesion. We report a case of coexistent intramyocardial dissecting hematoma and ventricular rupture that arose as a consequence of a distal right coronary artery occlusion. Unusually, there was a very long dissection plane, which crossed the atrioventricular groove, with the hematoma manifesting on the opposite side of the heart (left atrium) to the infarcted myocardium (inferior wall).
AB - Intramyocardial dissecting hematoma after myocardial infarction is a rare condition. Previous reports have documented that these hematomas form almost exclusively in the myocardium adjacent to the culprit coronary lesion. We report a case of coexistent intramyocardial dissecting hematoma and ventricular rupture that arose as a consequence of a distal right coronary artery occlusion. Unusually, there was a very long dissection plane, which crossed the atrioventricular groove, with the hematoma manifesting on the opposite side of the heart (left atrium) to the infarcted myocardium (inferior wall).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.echo.2004.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.echo.2004.06.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 15502798
AN - SCOPUS:6344229765
SN - 0894-7317
VL - 17
SP - 1201
EP - 1203
JO - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
JF - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
IS - 11
ER -