Successful surgical treatment of a ruptured true postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm--a case report.
Rupture of a chronic postinfarction aneurysm of the left ventricle is rare and usually fatal. A 63-year-old man with rupture of a true left ventricular aneurysm 67 days after myocardial infarction was treated successfully with resection of the aneurysm. The postoperative course was uneventful.
Matsumoto
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Red Cross Hospital, Japan.
Konishi
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Y
Nishizawa
J
J
Yuasa
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S
Kotoura
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H
D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*