Idiopathic left ventricular aneurysm

Left ventricular aneurysm.

Left ventricular septal aneurysm.

A6-month-old girl (3.5 months corrected, born at 28 weeks gestational age) presented with a history of increasing tachypnea, diaphoresis, difficulty feeding, and poor weight gain. A 15-lead ECG done on day 41 of life had revealed normal sinus rhythm with a nonspecific intraventricular conduction delay. At that time, clinically there was a soft systolic murmur and no evidence of congestive heart...

Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Angiocardiographic characteristics of the residual contracting left ventricle (LV) have been examined in 16 patients with anterolateral ventricular aneurysms (VA). In each patient a contractile section (CS) of the LV was clearly demarcated from the remaining aneurysmal section (AS). Using a double hemispheroid model, volumes of CS and AS were separately estimated by a modified area-length metho...

Idiopathic Left Ventricular Aneurysm Causing Ventricular Tachycardia with 1:1 Ventriculoatrial Conduction and Intermittent Wenckebach Block

Left ventricular aneurysms (LVAs) can be congenital or acquired. They develop most frequently after myocardial infarction. Other causes include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, chest trauma, sarcoidosis or Chagas disease [1, 2]. LVAs without identifiable cause are considered as idiopathic. Most of LVAs are asymptomatic and are occasionall...

Idiopathic Submitral Left Ventricular Aneurysm: an unusual substrate for ventricular tachycardia in Caucasians

Annular submitral aneurysms have been rarely reported in Caucasians. They are typically diagnosed in non-white adults who present with severe mitral regurgitation, heart failure, systemic embolism, ventricular arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death. In this article, we describe the case of a white woman, presenting with ventricular tachycardia, who had a large submitral left ventricular aneurysm...