title: Transesophageal two- and three-dimensional echocardiographic diagnosis of combined left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and ventricular septal rupture.
abstract: Two- (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) were useful in making the diagnosis of combined left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and ventricular septal rupture in an elderly patient presenting with mediastinitis and worsening heart failure following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The diagnosis was not suspected clinically. Three-dimensional TEE served to increase the confidence level with which the diagnosis of this combined lesion was made. Additionally, 3-D TEE proved superior to 2-D TEE in assessing the size of the left ventricular rupture site.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
authors.forename: Rajasekhar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nekkanti
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.forename: Gilbert J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Zoghbi
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mukhtar
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: McGiffin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004452:Echocardiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D018658:Ventricular Septal Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology