Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Written by Magnus Nossen, edits by Smith The patient in today's case is an 85-year-old male with a history of COPD and dementia. Rupture can be either free wall rupture (causing tamponade) or septal rupture, causing ventricular septal defect with left to right flow and resulting pulmonary edema and shock. References: [1] Lador, A.
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