Thrombus within a submitral left ventricular aneurysm: diagnosis on cross sectional echocardiography.
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.
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Department St Thomas's Hospital, London.
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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