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Exam questionKROK 1Dentistry ยท 2011

Shortly before death a patient got an electrocardiographically based diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. Autopsy revealed that the myocardial cavity contained 200 ml of liquid blood and 400 g of clots; the posterior wall of the left ventricle had a perforation up to 2 cm long. What complication of myocardial infraction is it?

Answer options

  1. Exudative pericarditis
  2. Haemorrhagic pericarditis
  3. Myocardial rupture with cardiac tamponade
  4. Idiopathic myocarditis
  5. Stone heart
Correct answer

Myocardial rupture with cardiac tamponade

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