title: A large left ventricular thrombus evolving towards canalization and mimicking a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: an echocardiographic study.
abstract: We describe a case of a large apical left ventricular thrombus evolving towards canalization and showing echocardiographic features mimicking a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. Only serial echocardiographic studies allowed an appreciation of the changing morphologic features of the apical structure, permitting differential diagnosis between a canalization of an evolving thrombus and a myocardial free-wall rupture with pseudoaneurysm formation.
authors.affiliation: Cardiologia A.R.C., Ospedale Civile, Pordenone, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Badano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Piazza
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bisignani
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Nicolosi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*