PECULIARITIES AND SURGICAL TREATMENT TACTICS OF POSTERO-BASAL LEFT VENTRICULAR ANEURYSMS

Abstract

The literary review reflects the main current data on the problem of surgical treatment of postero-basal left ventricular aneurysms. It is shown that, despite the small percentage of these aneurysms in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), their importance for surgical treatment is significant, since the effective correction of detected disorders of cardiac structures, myocardium and coronary arteries has not been sufficiently developed to date, and many issues of surgical tactics are contradictory. This applies both to the type of geometric reconstruction of the left ventricle, and the feasibility of mitral regurgitation correction, which due to dysfunction of the papillary muscles is observed in almost all patients with postero-basal aneurysms of the heart. The question of the combined correction of the interventricular septum rupture in patients with postero-basal aneurysms remains complex and unresolved until now. The relevant problem is the choice of surgical tactics of left ventricular reconstruction using two patches in the presence of anteroposterior aneurysms. All of the above reflects the need for further research on the problem of surgical treatment of postero-basal aneurysms of the heart.

Keywords

• coronary heart disease
• left ventricular postero-basal aneurysms
• surgical treatment