title: Pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle: an unusual echocardiographic presentation. Review of the literature.
abstract: Echocardiography showed a large anterior chamber communicating with the left ventricle cavity through the interventricular septum in a patient with a previous left ventricular aneurysmectomy. At postmortem examination this chamber proved to be an 11-cm diameter pseudoaneurysm that opened into the left ventricle through a 3-cm orifice. A review of the literature showed 67 cases of histologically proven left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, most of which occurred after myocardial infarction and cardiac surgery. Twenty-six of 32 left ventricular pseudoaneurysms were successfully operated upon.  Among 35 patients with pseudoaneurysms not operated upon, rupture was a cause of death in 11.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged