Global ST-Segment Elevation Associated With Impending Cardiac Rupture During Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization

Tadayuki Kadohira; Yoshio Kobayashi; Yuriko Niitsuma; Mizuho Imamaki; Issei Komuro

doi:10.1536/ihj.50.539

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Global ST-Segment Elevation Associated With Impending Cardiac Rupture During Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization

Tadayuki Kadohira, Yoshio Kobayashi, Yuriko Niitsuma, Mizuho Imamaki, Issei Komuro

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Keywords: Rupture, Catheterization, Complication

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2009 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 539-542

DOI https://doi.org/10.1536/ihj.50.539

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Abstract

Cardiac rupture is a life-threatening complication during diagnostic cardiac catheterization, however, it rarely occurs nowadays. The present case report describes cardiac rupture during diagnostic cardiac catheterization using a 4F pigtail catheter and a 0.035” flexible guidewire, and global ST-segment elevation associated with impending cardiac rupture.

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