title: Giant aneurysm of the membranous ventricular septum extending outside the heart: diagnosis by transthoracic color flow Doppler echocardiography.
abstract: Aneurysm of the membranous ventricular septum (AMS) is a congenital cardiac anomaly often associated with ventricular septal defect. This aneurysm usually pouches into the right side of the heart and remains intracardiac. An AMS that extends outside of the heart is rare. We report an unusual case of a giant extracardiac AMS diagnosed by transthoracic color flow Doppler echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahi-Machi, Abeno-Ku, Osaka 545-8588, Japan.
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugioka
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Deborah R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Gersony
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hozumi
authors.forename: Shunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Homma
authors.forename: Shigefumi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suehiro
authors.forename: Kazuhide
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged