Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm in a Patient With an Apical Aneurysm

Pratik Patel, MD; Michael Siegenthaler, MD; W. Patricia Bandettini, MD; Andrew E. Arai, MD; Kana Fujikura, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Jan 2021)

Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm in a Patient With an Apical Aneurysm

Pratik Patel, MD,
Michael Siegenthaler, MD,
W. Patricia Bandettini, MD,
Andrew E. Arai, MD,
Kana Fujikura, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Pratik Patel, MD: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr. Pratik Patel, Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, USA.
Michael Siegenthaler, MD: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
W. Patricia Bandettini, MD: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Andrew E. Arai, MD: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Kana Fujikura, MD, PhD: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 91 – 93

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Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is a potentially life-threatening complication of acute myocardial infarction. Timely diagnosis is crucial to improve the patient’s prognosis. We describe a multimodality diagnostic approach with emphasis on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm found surreptitiously in 72-year-old man 2 weeks following an acute myocardial infarction. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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