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Surgical management of post-infarction leaking left ventricular false aneurysm
E D Mundth1, H S Mayer, F T Hopkins
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Bryn Mawr Hospital, PA.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
A case report of leaking left ventricular false aneurysm causing pericardial tamponade treated by surgical resection of the false aneurysm and coronary bypass surgery is presented including a description of the intraoperative technique for demonstration of the false aneurysm and the communicating channel to the left ventricular chamber.