• Jesús Vargas-Barron, Omar-Yassef Antunez-Montes, Francisco-Javier Roldán, Alberto Aranda-Frausto, Hector González-Pacheco, Ángel Romero-Cardenas, and Miguel Zabalgoitia.
• Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, México, D.F., México.
• Rev Invest Clin. 2015 Sep 1; 67 (5): 318-22.

BackgroundTorrent-Guasp explains the structure of the ventricular myocardium by means of a helical muscular band. Our primary purpose was to demonstrate the utility of echocardiography in human and porcine hearts in identifying the segments of the myocardial band. The second purpose was to evaluate the relation of the topographic distribution of the myocardial band with some post-myocardial infarction ruptures.MethodsFive porcine and one human heart without cardiopathy were dissected and the ventricular myocardial segments were color-coded for illustration and reconstruction purposes. These segments were then correlated to the conventional echocardiographic images. Afterwards in three cases with post-myocardial infarction rupture, a correlation of the topographic location of the rupture with the distribution of the ventricular band was made.ResultsThe human ventricular band does not show any differences from the porcine band, which confirms the similarities of the four segments; these segments could be identified by echocardiography. In three cases with myocardial rupture, a correlation of the intra-myocardial dissection with the distribution of the ventricular band was observed.ConclusionsEchocardiography is helpful in identifying the myocardial band segments as well as the correlation with the topographic distribution of some myocardial post-infarction ruptures.

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