Surgical Repair of Congenital Submitral Left Ventricular Aneurysm
Faisal K AlGhamdi1, Mustafa Mohammed Barakat2, Abdulaziz Al-Khaldi2
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports
|March 18, 2025
Abstract:
Left ventricular aneurysm is a rare abnormality of the left ventricle. It has many etiologies, such as coronary artery disease or infection, and it can be congenital. It occurs in multiple locations; one location is beneath the mitral valve annulus, submitral left ventricular aneurysm. We report a case of a 10-year-old girl who presented with severe mitral regurgitation and was found to have congenital left ventricular aneurysm, which was repaired surgically.
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