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Ventricular septal perforation is a complication of acute myocardial infarction that is fatal unless treated surgically. Posterior ventricular septal perforation remains particularly difficult to repair successfully. We report an 80-year-old man with postinfarction posterior ventricular septal perforation who successfully underwent surgical repair using a technique similar to that described by Daggett et al. and was discharged in good health without postoperative septal shunt.
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Kumamoto, T., Hirotani, T., Kameda, T. et al. Posterior ventricular septal perforation in an 80-year-old man. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 48, 254–257 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03218135
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