PMID: 16528996Mar 15, 2006Paper

Rapidly enlarging giant left ventricular pseudo-false aneurysm after myocardial infarction; report of a case

Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
K SatohM Iwai

Abstract

A 71-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with acute myocardial infarction and cardiac tamponade. After pericardial drainage, his hemodynamics was improved. Because more than 3 days had been passed after the onset of myocardial infarction and he had severe renal dysfunction, emergent coronary angiography (CAG) was not performed. After improvement of his general status, coronary angiography and percutaneous catheter intervention was carried out, and his course was uneventful. But transthoracic echocardiography before discharge revealed a giant posterior psudoaneurysm. Patch closure and coronary artery bypass grafting was carried out under cardiopulmonary bypass, and postoperative course was uneventful. Postoperative left ventriculogram revealed disappearance of pseudoaneurysm, but relatively large akinetic area of posterior-inferior wall was left around a patch. Pseudo-false aneurysm was diagnosed by histological examination.

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