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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Echocardiographic diagnosis of a massive left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: a case report
Nadezhda Sokolskaya1, Natalya Kopylova1, Inessa Slivneva1
1Institute of Coronary and Vascular Surgery of the A.N. Bakoulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Abstract:
Left ventricular aneurysm is one of the most troublesome complications of myocardial infarction. This complication results from LV wall rupture and presents as a cavity contained by pericardium and fragments of the ruptured wall. The risk of pseudoaneurysm rupture is very high and this makes the prognosis for the disease extremely unfavorable. A surgical correction, involving a patch repair of the LV wall, seems to be the only treatment modality. Echocardiography makes it possible to diagnose pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle in most cases, while intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is required for the in-process monitoring of intracardiac hemodynamics and assessment of intervention efficiency.
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