title: Improved diagnosis and characterization of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm by Doppler color flow imaging.
abstract: Three patients with a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm are presented. Doppler color flow imaging helped to establish the diagnosis and was able to show additional blood flow abnormalities. The guided continuous wave Doppler interrogation of the shunting blood flow through the communication between the pseudoaneurysm and the left ventricle allowed the identification of a specific diagnostic flow pattern. Doppler color flow imaging offers advantages in patients with equivocal two-dimensional echocardiographic findings for elucidating confusing clinical findings and demonstrating additional and unsuspected flow abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Toraxcenter, University Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Roelandt
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged