title: Chronic left ventricular pseudoaneurism.
abstract: We present the case of a 70-year-old white male presenting with an abnormal cardiac silhouette on the chest X-ray and complaining of fatigue in the week before hospital admission. Four months before admission he had a single prolonged ischemic chest pain episode. The ECG revealed an old true posterior myocardial infarction. The transthoracic echocardiogram showed a large left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and surgical resection was performed successfully. The etiology, diagnosis and treatment of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Unidade de Cardiologia (Departamento de Medicina) e Serviço de Cirurgia Cardiotorácica, Hospital de S. João, Porto.
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Pedro Bernardo
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: J Pinheiro
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bastos
authors.forename: Cassiano
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Abreu-Lima
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography