Postinfarction ventricular septal rupture is a life-threatening complication of acute myocardial infarction. Although some novel techniques of ventricular septal rupture closure have been introduced, they involve ventriculotomy, a procedure that can cause a degree of impairment of the incised ventricle. We describe a case in which we closed a ventricular septal rupture through the tricuspid valve, without ventriculotomy.
Keywords: Cardiac surgical procedures; Heart failure; Heart rupture; Heart septal defects; Myocardial infarction; Wound closure techniques; post-infarction; ventricular.