Repair of a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm with rupture of the interventricular septum

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Sep;67(9):800-802. doi: 10.1007/s11748-018-0974-2. Epub 2018 Jul 23.

Abstract

Presence of two combined mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction is extremely rare and still associated with a high-operative mortality. We describe a 73-year-old male patient who presented with a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm associated with rupture of the interventricular septum. Surgical repair of both lesions was successfully accomplished.

Keywords: Cardiac rupture; Myocardial infarction; Pseudoaneurysm.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aneurysm, False / etiology
  • Aneurysm, False / surgery*
  • Animals
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures
  • Cattle
  • Comorbidity
  • Echocardiography
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications
  • Pericardium / surgery
  • Ventricular Septum / physiopathology*
  • Ventricular Septum / surgery*