Surgical treatment of a chest-wall penetrating left ventricular pseudoaneurysm.
This report describes the treatment of a patient who developed a chest-wall penetrating pseudoaneurysm 3 years after coronary bypass grafting and after the resection of a lateral wall left ventricular aneurysm twice. The patient presented with a pulsatile tumor in the left submammilar region. Surgery was done in deep hypothermia, with femoro-femoral cannulation and via a left anterolateral thoracotomy. The perioperative course was uneventful and the patient is still well 5 years after surgery.
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum, Berlin, Germany. mbauer@dhzb.de
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Bauer
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Musci
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Pasic
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Knollmann
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Hetzer
D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000601:surgery*; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013909:Thorax