A new classification of chronic postinfarction aneurysms of the left ventricle in patients with coronary artery disease

Abstract

The article highlights the historical moments of how the concepts for the diagnosis and treatment of postinfarction aneurysms of the left ventricle were developed, and the possibilities of the main diagnostic methods. As a rule, patients with chronic postinfarction aneurysms of the left ventricle have severe damage to their coronary bed, requiring invasive correction (coronary artery stenting or coronary artery bypass grafting), which must be performed either before or during the intervention to eliminate the left ventricular aneurysm. A new classification of chronic postinfarction aneurysms of the left ventricle is proposed, which takes into account rather the type of myocardial blood supply and the severity of damage to the coronary bed, than the actual features of aneurysms. It determines the stages and tactics of treatment of patients with chronic postinfarction aneurysms of the left ventricle, focusing on the problem of coronary revascularization.

Keywords

• postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm
• myocardial infarction
• left ventricular aneurysm
• classification