Yanagi Daizaburo, Shirai Kazuyuki, Arimura Tadaaki, Saito Naoko, Mitsutake Chiharu, Mitsutake Ryoko, Hida Satoru, Iwata Atsushi, Nishikawa Hiroaki, Kawamura Akira, Miura Shin-ichiro, Saku Keijiro
Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University Medical School, Fukuoka.
Intern Med. 2008;47(20):1803-5. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1164. Epub 2008 Oct 15.
We describe the case of an 85-year-old woman in whom pericardiocentesis, prolonged bed rest and blood pressure control were performed without surgery to successfully treat an oozing-type myocardial rupture due to myocardial infarction.
