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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Jun 2012
TachoSil for postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture.
- Marco Pocar, Davide Passolunghi, Alda Bregasi, and Francesco Donatelli.
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Scientific Institute MultiMedica Hospital, Milan, Italy. marco.pocar@unimi.it
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2012 Jun 1;14(6):866-7.
AbstractDespite a decline in the last three decades, postinfarction ventricular free wall rupture still complicates more than 3% of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarctions and remains a surgical challenge. TachoSil (Nycomed, Zurich, Switzerland) is an equine collagen patch coated with human fibrinogen and human thrombin, which has recently been used for haemostasis in cardiovascular surgery, but its potential usefulness in free wall rupture has not been reported. Initial clinical experience with an on-pump sutureless technique without cardioplegia, using wide TachoSil patching to achieve free wall rupture repair, has been described.
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