Pseudoaneurysm of the Left Ventricle: an Unusual Echocardiographic Presentation
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 86 (4), 430-433
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-86-4-430
Abstract
Echocardiography showed a large anterior chamber communicating with the left ventricular cavity through the interventricular septum in a patient with a previous left ventricular aneurysmectomy. At postmortem examination this chamber proved to be an 11-cm diameter pseudoaneurysm that opened into the left ventricle through a 3-cm orifice. A review of the literature showed 67 cases of histologically proven left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, most of which occurred after myocardial infarction and cardiac surgery. Twenty-six of 32 left ventricular pseudoaneurysms were successfully operated upon. Among 35 patients with pseudoaneurysms not operated upon, rupture was a cause of death in 11.Keywords
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