M1003: Heart
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-27T07:52:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-27T07:52:23Z | |
| dc.description | Clinical history : A 53 year old male patient well known rugby player had endarterectomy of iliac arteries 4 years previously. | |
| dc.description | He was admitted with atrial fibrillation, heart failure and pulmonary oedema. | |
| dc.description | Myocardial infarction was diagnosed with aneurysmal dilatation of left ventricle. | |
| dc.description | Severe haemoptysis, cyanosis and loss of consciousness pointed to extension of infarction. | |
| dc.description | Artificial respiration was started and the heart failure signs improved but the patient remained unconscious. | |
| dc.description | Before death monoplegia of right arm, Cheyne-Stokes respiration and bradycardia developed. | |
| dc.description | Autopsy findings : 1. Triple coronary artery atherosclerosis. | |
| dc.description | 2. Subendocardial myocardial infarction. | |
| dc.description | 3. Dilatation of all heart chamber and bilateral atrial thrombosis. | |
| dc.description | 4. Cerebral embolism and infarction. | |
| dc.description | 5. Dry gangrene of toes of both feet. | |
| dc.description | Diagnosis: Old subendocardial myocardial infarction | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/106776 | |
| dc.title | M1003: Heart |