Journal:
:archives of cardiovascular imaging
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sedat altay department of radiology, ataturk research and education hospital, katip celebi university, izmir, turkey; department of radiology, ataturk research and education hospital, katip celebi university, izmir, turkey. tel: +90-5332435440, fax: +90-2322431530
canan altay department of radiology, faculty of medicine, dokuz eylul university, izmir, turkey
nezahat erdogan department of radiology, ataturk research and education hospital, katip celebi university, izmir, turkey
sebnem karasu department of radiology, ataturk research and education hospital, katip celebi university, izmir, turkey
orhan oyar department of radiology, ataturk research and education hospital, katip celebi university, izmir, turkey
the most frequent congenital heart defects in the neonatal period are ventricular septal defects. ventricular septal aneurysms can rarely develop from an interventricular septal (ivs) defect in adults. we describe a 47-year-old man with an aneurysm in the ivs growing towards the right ventricle, which was confirmed by cardiac computed tomographic angiography and was missed by echocardiography.