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Spontaneous disappearance of a false aneurysm after iatrogenic ruptured ventricle
Masayoshi Ito1, Hirokazu Murayama, Atsushi Ishida
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Chiba Cardiovascular Center, Ichihara, Japan. mlc33560@nifty.com
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 25, 2002
Abstract:
We report the case of a 64-year-old woman who had an atypical subendocardial aneurysm, a space between the internal patch, which was used for the repair of a left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement, and myocardium, which filled with blood during the diastole phase. During the follow-up period, the aneurysm spontaneously disappeared. This case endorses combining internal and external approaches to repair a left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement.