title: Endovascular treatment of two pseudoaneurysms originating from the left ventricle.
abstract: A 67-year-old woman resented with an acute type A aortic dissection, which was treated surgically with aortic valve replacement as a composite graft with reimplantation of the coronary arteries. At the end of surgery, a left-ventricular venting catheter was placed through the apex and closed with a buffered suture. Consecutive computed tomography (CT) examinations verified a growing apex pseudoaneurysm. Communication between the ventricle and the pseudoaneurysm was successfully closed with an Amplatz septal plug by the transfemoral route. Follow-up CT showed an additional pseudoaneurysm, which also was successfully closed using the same method.
authors: Department of Radiology, Skane University Hospital, 22185, Lund, Sweden. wcwikiel@gmail.com.
authors: Wojciech
authors: W
authors: Cwikiel
authors: Department of Radiology, Skane University Hospital, 22185, Lund, Sweden.
authors: Inger
authors: I
authors: Keussen
authors: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
authors: Ronny
authors: R
authors: Gustafsson
authors: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
authors: Arash
authors: A
authors: Mokhtari
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015641:Radiography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D012008:Recurrence; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome