Abstract

Despite the current development of cardiology, postinfarction rupture of the interventricular septum (IVS) is one of the most hazardous, life-threatening complications of acute myocardial infarction. The paper describes a clinical case of a 63-year-old female patient with a history of an acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction complicated by IVS rupture. The difficulties in the management of this patient and a comparative analysis of our treatment strategy with the available modern literature data on this issue are also presented.

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