POSTTRAUMATIC LEFT-VENTRICULAR PSEUDOANEURYSM DUE TO INTRAMYOCARDIAL DISSECTING HEMATOMA

Authors
MASELLI D MICALIZZI E PIZIO R AUDO A DEGASPERIS C
Citation
D. Maselli et al., POSTTRAUMATIC LEFT-VENTRICULAR PSEUDOANEURYSM DUE TO INTRAMYOCARDIAL DISSECTING HEMATOMA, The Annals of thoracic surgery, 64(3), 1997, pp. 830-831
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The Annals of thoracic surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00034975
Volume
64
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
830 - 831
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4975(1997)64:3<830:PLPDTI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A left ventricular aneurysm can develop in patients sustaining blunt c hest injury. This condition has been attributed to myocardial contusio n or to a direct vascular lesion leading to myocardial necrosis. We re port the case of a pseudoaneurysm resulting from myocardial dissection beginning from a small tear in the endocardial wall. Successful surgi cal exclusion of the pseudoaneurysm by endoaneurysmal patch closure of the communications between the aneurysm and the left ventricular cavi ty is described.