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Successful surgical treatment of a ruptured true postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm--a case report
M Matsumoto1, Y Konishi, J Nishizawa
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Red Cross Hospital, Japan.
Japanese Circulation Journal
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
Rupture of a chronic postinfarction aneurysm of the left ventricle is rare and usually fatal. A 63-year-old man with rupture of a true left ventricular aneurysm 67 days after myocardial infarction was treated successfully with resection of the aneurysm. The postoperative course was uneventful.