[A case of post infarction true left ventricular aneurysm which showed pseudoaneurysm-like shape in left ventriculography].
A 69-year-old man who had a post-infarction left ventricular aneurysm underwent surgical repair. Preoperative left ventriculography showed a small aneurysm, 3.0 x 3.0 x 2.5 cm in size, with a narrow neck at the inferior wall suggesting a typical "false" aneurysm. But intraoperative and pathological examination revealed that this was a "true" aneurysm which contains coronary artery and myocardial cells in its wall. Left ventriculography is not necessarily the definite standard to differentiate between true and false left ventricular aneurysm.
Ito
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital.
Miyata
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Y
Oomiya
T
T
Takami
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Y
Ariki
H
H
Ishihara
T
T
D000368:Aged; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography