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Table 1 Timeline

From: Unrecognized concomitant ventricular septal rupture and left ventricular aneurysm 10 months after myocardial infarction in a patient presenting with chronic heart failure

Timeline

 

February 2020

First presentation of shortness of breath

March 2020

Coronary angiography revealed significant stenosis of the RCA and there was percutaneous coronary intervention for the stenosis

April–November 2020

New York Heart Association Functional Class III on medication with diuretics

Late-November–Early December 2020

Worsening dyspnea on exertion. Pulmonary edema on chest X-ray imaging, LVR on echocardiography, LVA on cardiac CT scan

Late December 2020

Successful repair of the VSR and LVA

January 2021

Patient discharged

Late April 2021

3 month- follow-up by the patient’s local cardiologist—no symptoms or complaints