title: Left ventricular aneurysmectomy in patients with poor left ventricular function.
abstract: Physical performance and left ventricular (LV) function in the resting state were assessed in 22 patients with postinfarction anterior-apical left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) and global ejection fraction less than or equal to 20% who subsequently underwent radical LVA resection. The basic findings in the 20 survivors of surgery were significant improvement of global systolic LV function and more or less complete recovery of regional ejection fraction in the predominantly viable low and high lateral LV wall. This improvement was evident in patients with concomitant bypass grafting as well as in those with isolated and ungraftable lesions of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. We conclude that postinfarction anterior-apical LVA in a poorly functioning LV is suitable for surgical treatment, which can be accomplished with acceptable risk. All graftable stenotic major coronary arteries should be bypassed, in addition to the LVA resection, but a minority of patients with isolated, ungraftable LAD disease are likely to benefit from aneurysmectomy alone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oxelbark
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mannting
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Henze
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D011875:Radionuclide Angiography; D013318:Stroke Volume; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right