Simultaneous Repair of Ventricular Septal Defect and Left Ventricular Aneurysm Following Myocardial Infarction

Repair of ventricular septal defect and left ventricular aneurysm following myocardial infarction

“…Complete surgical correction of these anomalies may be a life-saving procedure. However, in the reviewed literature there have been only few reported attempts to repair both rupture of the interventricular septum and ventricular aneurysm (Collis, Raison, Mackinnon, and Whittaker, 1962;Taylor, Citron, Robicsek, and Sanger, 1965;Green, Oakley, Davies, and Cleland, 1965;Heimbecker, Chen, Hamilton, and Murray, 1967;Daicoff and Rhodes, 1968;Selzer, Gerbode, and Kerth, 1969;Stinson, Becker, and Shumway, 1969;Limsuwan, Glass, and Jacobs, 1970;Daggett, Burwell, Lawson, and Austen, 1970). Furthermore, in none of the described cases was angiocardiography performed before the operation in order to demonstrate the ventricular aneurysm.…”