title: [A case of post infarction true left ventricular aneurysm which showed pseudoaneurysm-like shape in left ventriculography].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oomiya
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takami
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ariki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishihara
mesh_terms: 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