title: Isolated congenital left ventricular diverticulum.
abstract: We describe a patient with congenital left ventricular diverticulum as an isolated lesion. The patient was asymptomatic until adult life and the diagnosis was apparent on cross-sectional echocardiography. The finding was confirmed by cardiac catheterisation.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Cardiologia, Caltanissetta, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vancheri
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Trovato
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Shinebourne
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D004452:Echocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male