Cardiac death by rupture of the right ventricular wall and hemopericardium

• Authors: Francesco Massoni , Serafino Ricci
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Right Ventricular (RV) rupture is a rare and dangerous complication of acute myocardial infarction. There are limited reports on RV free wall rupture. In this paper we describe the outcome of an autopsy case of cardiac death by rupture of the free wall of the right ventricle in a 51-year-old man with coronary artery disease and hypertrophic-sclerotic cardiomyopathy.

Keywords

EN

Cardiac death; Right-ventricular rupture; Hemopericardium

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-48

Dates

published

1 - 2 - 2014

online

4 - 2 - 2014

Contributors

author

Francesco Massoni

• Department of Anatomical Sciences, histological, legal medicine and locomotor apparatus, University “Sapienza” of Rome, 00161, Rome, Italy

author

Serafino Ricci

• Department of Anatomical Sciences, histological, legal medicine and locomotor apparatus, University “Sapienza” of Rome, 00161, Rome, Italy

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0227-9