title: Thrombus within a submitral left ventricular aneurysm: diagnosis on cross sectional echocardiography.
abstract: Subvalvar left ventricular aneurysms are rare and occur predominantly in black Africans. A submitral left ventricular aneurysm was diagnosed on cross sectional echocardiography in a black woman born in the United Kingdom. The left parasternal long axis view showed a highly echogenic mass apparently attached to the wall of a dilated left atrium, but the apical two-chamber view showed that this was thrombus in the apex of a left ventricular aneurysm. The patient subsequently underwent surgical correction.
authors.affiliation: Department St Thomas's Hospital, London.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Venn
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Webb-Peploe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000208:ethnology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000208:ethnology