Regarding Freestyle Pseudoaneurysms

Pseudoaneurysms of the heart.

Case 1: An 85-year-old man with a history of ischemic cardiomyopathy and recent reoperation coronary bypass surgery was noted on a routine follow-up echocardiogram to have a 25 25-mm fluid-filled extracardiac mass adjacent to the basal inferolateral wall of the left ventricle (Figure 1). Cardiac computed tomography (CT) identified the structure to be a pseudoaneurysm of a saphenous vein graft t...

Multiple Inflammatory Aortic Pseudoaneurysms

Multiple mycotic pseudoaneurysms of the aorta are rarely seen. This case summarizes a patient who survived primary rupture of his proximal ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm but was an unacceptable candidate for surgical therapy. He survived for approximately four months prior to death from massive hemoptysis. The case presents a rare look at an unusual condition and the difficulties in the manage...

The Personality of Freestyle Snowboarders

Cardiac aneurysms, pseudoaneurysms, and diverticula.

Contemporary management of postcatheterization pseudoaneurysms.

Apseudoaneurysm (PSA) is a contained rupture; there is a disruption in all 3 layers of the arterial wall (Figure 1). PSAs may occur under 4 circumstances: (1) after catheterization (Figure 2); (2) at the site of native artery and synthetic graft anastomosis (eg, aortofemoral bypass graft); (3) trauma; and (4) infection (eg, mycotic PSA) (Figure 3). This review will focus on PSAs that occur afte...