Giant left ventricular aneurysm after recurrent mitral valve replacement

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
Çağin Mustafa ÜreyenCem Yunus Baş

Abstract

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after mitral valve replacement has been reported in various studies; however, as far as we know, a true aneurysm after redo mitral valve replacement has not been reported in any article yet. We herein present a patient who developed a true aneurysm and atrioventricular complete block after third surgery of mitral valve. DDD pacemaker was implanted, albeit the patient refused reoperation for aneurysmectomy.

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