A ballooning heart-giant left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm presenting as congestive heart failure.
Left ventricular (LV) pseudo aneurysm is a contained rupture of ventricular wall by adherent pericardium or scar tissue. We present a case of a 70 year-old male presented with exertional dyspnea for 2 months and found to have giant LV pseudo aneurysm on transthoracic echocardiogram, cardiac MRI and angiogram. To our knowledge such a large pseudo aneurysm involving LV apex and presenting as congestive heart failure is the first case in literature.
Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, 1016 50th Street Apt 2C, Brooklyn, NY, 11219, USA, abhisheksharma4mamc@gmail.com.
Abhishek
A
Sharma
Saurabh
S
Thakar
Vijay
V
Shetty
Adnan
A
Sadiq
Jacob
J
Shani
D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000473:pathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000473:pathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male