Incremental value of live/real‐time three‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography over the two‐dimensional technique in the assessment of left ventricular endocardial rupture with myocardial dissection and contained apical epicardial rupture following myocardial infarction

Abstract

We describe an elderly patient with left ventricular (LV) endocardial rupture with myocardial dissection and contained apical epicardial rupture following acute myocardial infarction in whom live/realtime three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (3DTTE) provided incremental value over traditional two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2DTTE) in the assessment of this lesion. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been reported previously.