Long term survival and late repair of massive cardiac pseudoaneurysm.
Myocardial rupture of the left ventricle after an acute myocardial infarction resulted in the formation of a massive pseudoaneurysm in a middle aged man. Cross sectional echocardiography was useful in identifying the defect which was successfully closed at operation nine years after its formation.
D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000150:complications*; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors