Gabriel Carlos Fernandez MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Javier Encinas MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Miguel Corral, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Maria Velasco MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Marta Repolles Cobaleda, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Sandra Baleato Gonzalez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Daniel Agueda, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

To review complications of myocardial infarction from a radiologist point of view and with particular emphasis on the imaging findings by MDCT and MRI. To learn the most relevant complications after myocardial infarcts. To show as theses complications can be diagnosed by imaging. To describe the physiological effects resulting from a complication after myocardial infarction.

The leading cause of hospital death in patients with myocardial infarction is heart failure, either caused by severe left ventricular dysfunction or secondary to complications of myocardial infarction. Complications can be classified as: 1- mechanical: Septum rupture; papilary muscle rupture; Cardiac rupture (ventricular wall rupture); Pseudoaneurysm (contained rupture); left ventricle failure (cardiogenic shock); right ventricle failure; ventricular aneurysm; 2.- Electrical or arrythmic. 3.- Ischemic: Reinfarction. 4.- Embolic: systemic embolism. 5.- Inflammatory: early pericarditis; late pericarditis (Dressler syndrome).

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Fernandez, G, Encinas, J, Corral, M, Velasco, M, Repolles Cobaleda, M, Baleato Gonzalez, S, Agueda, D, Myocardial Infarction Complications: Radiological Findings..  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14009454.html