title: Successful repair of a left ventricular aneurysm after blunt chest trauma in a child.
abstract: A 5-year-old boy sustained multiple serious injuries, including compression trauma to the chest, when he was struck by a piece of timber. Two-dimensional echocardiography and left ventricular angiography revealed a left ventricular apical aneurysm, which was successfully repaired with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. To our knowledge, this is only the 5th case in which a left ventricular aneurysm resulting from closed-chest injury in a child has been successfully treated.
authors.affiliation: Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lukács L
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kádár
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lengyel M
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arvay