SUCCESSFUL CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OF FREE WALL RUPTURE FOLLOWING ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: THE ROLE OF CARDIAC CT MONITORING

A 80 years old male with a cardiac blow-out type rupture of the inferior wall after acute myocardial infarction underwent successful conservative management guided by cardiac CT images and stable hemodynamic condition. In our case, cardiac CT provided adjunctive imaging data supporting the successful non-operative approach demonstrating the occlusion of the myocardial tear at 48 hour