Lethal complication: Ventricular septal perforation and right ventricular infarction after acute myocardial infarction

Abstract

Key clinical message Here, we report a case of ventricular septal perforation complicated with right ventricular infarction after inferior acute myocardial infarction, which was associated with a poor clinical outcome despite the successful surgical treatment.

Keywords

• myocardial infarction
• percutaneous coronary intervention
• ventricular dysfunction, right
• ventricular septal rupture