[Pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle (healing of the cardiac wall rupture in a myocardial infarct)].
Rupture of the left ventricle in an infarction is nearly always ensued by a massive pericardiac haemorrhage and sudden death of cardiac tamponade. Quite exceptionally, haemorrhage can be confined in pericardiac adhesions which is followed by a pseudoaneurysm. Case of a 62 year old man is depicted who deceased suddenly 7 months after an acute posterior wall heart infarction. A voluminous pseudoaneurysm was found at the ruptured posterior wall of the left ventricle. Retrospective clinical evaluation fixed the heart rupture on the 10th day after infarction.
D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*
Pseudoaneurysma levé komory (zhojení ruptury srdecní stĕny pri infarktu myokardu).