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Abstract

Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture is a life-threatening complication of acute myocardial infarction. Although some novel techniques of ventricular septal rupture closure have been introduced, they involve ventriculotomy, a procedure that can cause a degree of impairment of the incised ventricle. We describe a case in which we closed a ventricular septal rupture through the tricuspid valve, without ventriculotomy.

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Cardiac surgical procedures Heart failure Heart rupture post-infarction Heart septal defects ventricular Myocardial infarction Wound closure techniques

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Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture closure without ventriculotomy

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