PMID- 34422462
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210824
IS  - 2168-8184 (Print)
IS  - 2168-8184 (Electronic)
IS  - 2168-8184 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 7
DP  - 2021 Jul
TI  - Post-Infarction Ventricular Septal Rupture Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock 
      Requiring Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Definitive Therapy During 
      the COVID-19 Pandemic.
PG  - e16421
LID - 10.7759/cureus.16421 [doi]
LID - e16421
AB  - Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a devastating complication of acute 
      myocardial infarction (MI) and is often associated with cardiogenic shock. 
      Although considered to be very rare in the reperfusion era, recent reports have 
      demonstrated an increased frequency of post-MI VSR cases during the COVID-19 
      pandemic. Despite advances in surgical repair and management strategies over the 
      past decades, mortality rate has remained high, especially in hemodynamically 
      unstable patients. In VSR patients with cardiogenic shock, the use of mechanical 
      circulatory support (MCS) could be used as a bridge to surgical intervention. We 
      report a patient with VSR complicated by cardiogenic shock secondary to late 
      presenting MI, managed successfully with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane 
      oxygenation (VA-ECMO) as a bridge to surgical intervention.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021, Khorolsky et al.
FAU - Khorolsky, Ciril
AU  - Khorolsky C
AD  - Cardiology, Albany Medical Center, Albany, USA.
FAU - Pettijohn, Dyer
AU  - Pettijohn D
AD  - Internal Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, USA.
FAU - Yager, Neil
AU  - Yager N
AD  - Cardiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
DEP - 20210716
PL  - United States
TA  - Cureus
JT  - Cureus
JID - 101596737
PMC - PMC8369983
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - covid-19
OT  - mechanical circulatory support
OT  - stemi
OT  - va-ecmo
OT  - ventricular septal rupture
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2021/08/24 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/24 06:01
PMCR- 2021/07/16
CRDT- 2021/08/23 06:34
PHST- 2021/07/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/08/23 06:34 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/08/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/07/16 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.7759/cureus.16421 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Cureus. 2021 Jul 16;13(7):e16421. doi: 10.7759/cureus.16421. eCollection 2021 
      Jul.