Excision of a false left ventricular aneurysm

Staphylococcal postoperative subannular left ventricular false aneurysm.

A 37-year-old male with acute complicated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus mitral valve endocarditis underwent urgent valve replacement with a bileaflet prosthesis. The postoperative course was complicated with fever and heart failure. Echocardiography showed a large subannular false aneurysm of the left ventricle. Three weeks later resection and closure of the defect with a patch ma...

Left ventricular postoperative false aneurysm following apical venting

We report a case of false aneurysm of the left ventricle occurring subsequently to the placing of a vent sump line through the apex during an aortic valve procedure; the diagnosis was made twelve months later during a routine echocardiographic examination. The lesion was successfully repaired. This case recommend the use of other routes of venting in order to reduce the incidence of such compli...

Left ventricular false aneurysm following mitral valve replacement for endocarditis.

Fig. 1. Coronal view of a re-formatted CT scan image with contrast showing the right ventricle (RV), left ventricle (LV), and a pericardial haematoma (PH). ‘L’ represents the level of the rupture of the myocardial abscess and its connection to the pericardial space. Fig. 2. CT 3-D reconstruction with contrast showing the right ventricle (RV), left ventricle (LV), and the pericardial haematoma (...

Intraoperative left ventricular perforation with false aneurysm formation.

Two cases of perforation of the left ventricle during mitral valve replacement are described. In the first case there was perforation at the site of papillary muscle excision and this was recognized and successfully treated. However, a true ventricular aneurysm developed at the repair site. One month after operation rupture of the left ventricle occurred at a second and separate site on the pos...

Left ventricular aneurysm.