title: Surgical treatment of a giant left ventricular aneurysm- a case report.
abstract: An aneurysm of the left ventricle is a complication of acute myocardial infarction. We report a case of a giant aneurysm of the left ventricle after myocardial infarction in a 59 year-old male patient. The surgery to correct the aneurysm was performed with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass under normothermia. A bovine pericardial patch was used for the geometric reconstruction of the ventricular wall affected by the aneurysm. After the procedure, echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction and volume reduction.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gustavo Alves
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Schaitza
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Rocha
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Faria Neto
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Julio Cesar
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Francisco
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cristiana Pellegrino
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Baena
authors.affiliation: Hospital Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Helcio
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Giffhorn
authors.affiliation: Faculdade Evangélica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Bruna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Olandoski
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Leanderson Franco de
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Meira
authors.affiliation: InCor-Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luiz César
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Guarita-Souza
mesh_terms: D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000379:methods; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000502:physiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome