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Cardiogenic shock due to a large VSD after myocardial infarction

Time for a new strategy?

Kardiogener Schock infolge eines großen Ventrikelseptumdefekts nach Myokardinfarkt

Zeit für eine neue Strategie?

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Video 1. Transthoracic two-dimensional apical four-chamber view showing large ventricular septal rupture complicating the anterior acute myocardial infarction. (QuickTime MOV 0,3MB)

Video 2. Transthoracic two-dimensional apical short-axis view showing large ventricular septal rupture complicating the anterior acute myocardial infarction. (QuickTime MOV 0,7MB)

Video 3. The color and spectral Doppler echocardiography show a prominent left-to-right shunt (QuickTime MOV 0,6MB)

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Cacciotti, L., Passaseo, I., Camastra, G. et al. Cardiogenic shock due to a large VSD after myocardial infarction. Herz 39, 284–286 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00059-013-3820-4

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