title: Successful surgical treatment of a ruptured true postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm--a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Red Cross Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yuasa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kotoura
mesh_terms: D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*