Transcatheter closure of postinfarction ventricular septal rupture

Post Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture and Factors Associated With Its Mortality: A Retrospective Study

“…This incidence has reduced to a figure of 0.4% in the thrombolytic era as shown by the Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries (GUSTO-I) trial, which studied 41,021 patients at 11,12 1081 sites in 15 different countries. This is further reduced to 0.17% in APEX-MI registry, with improvement in pharmaco-invasive therapy being the 13 The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of ventricular septal rupture after acute myocardial infarction and to identify cardiovascular risk factors and clinical parameters with the mortality in these patients once this complication occurred. By determining this information in our region where it is not known till now, we will be able to find out the cases which need early intervention for correction that will definitely reduce the mortality from acquired VSR.…”