Ultrasound diagnosis of pseudoaneurysm and contiguous ventricular septal defect complicating inferior myocardial infarction.

Two patients with recent inferior myocardial infarction were found by two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography to have both an inferior wall pseudoaneurysm and a contiguous rupture of the posterior ventricular septum. The pseudoaneurysm was not suspected clinically in either patient. In one patient, a complex or dissecting septal rupture was visualized in detail. To our knowledge, the combined defect has not previously been diagnosed during life by noninvasive methods.

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Author Joseph Andrew Kisslo Medicine, Cardiology