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Murine Fetal Echocardiography
Published on: February 15, 2013
Congenital Ventricular Diverticulum
Carmelo Massimiliano Rao1, Fabiana Lucà1, Claudio Franzutti2
1Cardiology Department, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Abstract:
Herein, we describe a 54-year-old patient with a congenital ventricular diverticulum (CVD), referred to our emergency department for presyncope episodes and multiple re-entrant ventricular tachycardias (VT). Significantly, echocardiographic findings were not clear, and the diagnosis was made by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI), which showed the presence of an apical accessory cavity connected to the ventricle and contracting synchronously. CMRI allowed the differential diagnosis with other outpouching cardiac defects. The patient underwent a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) implant and was referred for heart transplantation (HT). The diagnosis, treatment, and main findings of the CVD are discussed in this case report.
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