title: Giant left ventricular pseudo-false aneurysm following myocardial infarction.
abstract: We report a successful surgical case of giant left ventricular pseudo-false aneurysm in a 63-year-old man. The abnormality of the inferior wall of the left ventricle was discovered incidentally by abdominal ultrasonography for health examination at another hospital. Transthoracic echocardiography and left ventriculography revealed a giant false aneurysm (74x75x40 mm) in the inferior wall of the left ventricle with a large orifice (70x58 mm). Repair of the aneurysm was performed under arrested heart, closing the large orifice with a Hemashield patch. Postoperative pathological examination proved that the wall of the aneurysm had myocardial tissue. The microscopic results strongly suggested that this aneurysm was a pseudo-false aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Hiratsuka City Hospital, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: Takahiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Misumi
authors.forename: Mikihiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsubara
mesh_terms: D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*