Traumatic left ventricular false aneurysm with significant regurgitation from left ventricular outflow tract to left atrium: delineation by two-dimensional and color flow Doppler echocardiography.
A 22-year-old man was asymptomatic 23 months after an automobile accident but had clinical evidence of progressive mitral insufficiency. Two-dimensional and color flow Doppler echocardiography demonstrated a false aneurysm adjacent to the left ventricular outflow tract and significant regurgitation of blood through a traumatic channel from the left ventricular outflow tract to the left atrium. The patient underwent successful surgical closure of the false aneurysm and repair of the traumatic left atrial regurgitation.
Taliercio
C P
CP
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 559051.
Oh
J K
JK
Summerer
M H
MH
Butler
C F
CF
Danielson
G K
GK
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology