False aneurysm of the left ventricle

[False aneurysm of the left ventricle].

Post-traumatic aneurysm of the left ventricle.

Three cases of left ventricular aneurysm secondary to external violence are reported. Each patient presented with a pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle, following penetrating trauma in two instances and blunt trauma in the third instance. The interval between injury and diagnosis ranged from 5 months to 24 years. Two patients underwent successful resection of the aneurysm. Repair was not attem...

Traumatic Aneurysm of the Left Ventricle.

Although aneurysm of the heart is still thought to be a somewhat rare and unusual pathological condition, recent work shows that it occurs not infrequently after coronary occlusion and infarction. Parkinson, Bedford, and Thompson (1938) estimate that it occurs in 9 per cent. of cases of cardiac infarction examined at necropsy. In the absence of coronary disease, aneurysm of the heart appears to...

Surgical treatment of false aneurysm of the left ventricle after myocardial infarction.

Rupture of the left ventricle after myocardial infarction results either in sudden death from cardiac tamponade or, when pericardial adhesions are present, in bleeding that is confined to a limited space, which gradually expands as the blood flows through a small communicating orifice under high pressure, forming a false aneurysm. In three such patients a false aneurysm of the left ventricle af...

Biloculate false aneurysm of the right ventricle after cardiac surgery.

A case of a 12-year-old boy who had double false aneurysms of the right ventricle after incomplete closed pulmonary valvotomy six years earlier is presented. The aneurysms were successfully treated surgically, and the aetiology is discussed.