J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 79(8): 844-847, 1978

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Report on the annual meeting

SURGICAL REPAIR OF VENTRICULAR SEPTAL RUPTURE AND VENTRICULAR ANEURYSM FOLLOWING ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. ITS SURGICAL TECHNIQUE AND PRE, POST OPERATIVE CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS

A successful surgical repair of a ruptured ventricular aneurysm secondary to myocardial infarction was performed on a 43 year-old man. On June 13, 1976, 59 days after the rupture of the ventricular septum, he underwent operation. The ventricular septal defect (0.7 cm × 0.7 cm) was closed with three interrupted stitches of 2-0 Ti-crone directly. The aneurysmal wall (5.5 cm × 5.0 cm) was resected and the left ventricle reapproximated covering the defect simulutaneously with same continous over and over the left ventricle reapproximated covering the defect simulutaneously with same continous over and over suture directly. The patient's postoperative course was remarkable for its benignancy. He was discharged from the hospital 15 days after operation he was in excellent health and reguired neither digitalis nor diuretics. Thirty months after operation, he was restudied by cine-angiography, its findings showed neither progressive changes in coronary arteris nor residual shunt.

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