A case of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in the left atrioventricular groove after mitral valve replacement.
Left ventricle-coronary sinus fistula and left ventricular pseudoaneurysm are unusual and frightening complications after mitral valve replacement. A 27-year-old female patient underwent mitral valve replacement 5 years previously and trans-thoracic echocardiography showed an outpouching lesion at the atrioventricular groove. It was difficult to differentiate whether the lesion was a left ventricle-coronary sinus fistula or a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm by two-dimensional echocardiography. Cardiac computed tomography confirmed a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm compressing the coronary sinus.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Hong-Soon
HS
Jung
Woo-Baek
WB
Chung
Keun-Suk
KS
Yang
Hae Kyung
HK
Yang
Tae-Geun
TG
Gweon
Guk-Jin
GJ
Lee
Ji-Hyung
JH
Hong
Jung Im
JI
Jung
Hyun
H
Song
Ho-Joong
HJ
Youn
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