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Surgical treatment of a chest-wall penetrating left ventricular pseudoaneurysm
1Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum, Berlin, Germany. mbauer@dhzb.de
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 2, 2000
Abstract:
This report describes the treatment of a patient who developed a chest-wall penetrating pseudoaneurysm 3 years after coronary bypass grafting and after the resection of a lateral wall left ventricular aneurysm twice. The patient presented with a pulsatile tumor in the left submammilar region. Surgery was done in deep hypothermia, with femoro-femoral cannulation and via a left anterolateral thoracotomy. The perioperative course was uneventful and the patient is still well 5 years after surgery.