Post-traumatic focal true left ventricular aneurysm

Post-traumatic left ventricular pseudoaneurysm.

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysms (LVPs) occur as a complication of myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery and, rarely, due to thoracic trauma, infective pericarditis or iatrogenisis due to accidental perforation of the myocardium. Ventricular pseudoaneurysms are acquired by blood-filled spaces outside the cardiac chambers communicating with the ventricle. We present a case of LVP presented afte...

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...

Giant and Calcified Post-Infarction True Left Ventricular Aneurysm: What to Do?

Giant and Calcified Post-Infarction True Left Ventricular Aneurysm: What to Do? Alexandre Hideo Kajita*, Marcos Danillo Peixoto Oliveira*, Fernando Reis Menezes, Marcelo Franken, Luciano Moreira Baraciolli, José Carlos Nicolau Instituto do Coração – Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP – Brazil *The authors Alexandre Hideo Kajita and Marcos Danillo Peixoto Oliveira have contributed equally ...

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...