Left ventricular aneurysmectomy

CURRENT TOPICS Indications for Left Ventricular Aneurysmectomy

MORE THAN 25 years ago, C.P. Bailey performed the first successful left ventricular aneurysmectomy in a human being.' Since then, with cardiopulmonary bypass and improved surgical techniques, aneurysmectomy has become an established procedure available to patients with ventricular aneurysms and severe symptoms. In this paper we review the available literature concerned with elective left ventri...

Failure of aneurysmectomy to improve left ventricular function.

Biplane left ventricular angiography was performed in 22 patients with isolated obstructive disease of the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery and with an anterior aneurysm following transmural myocardial infarction. Six patients were restudied between 6 and 10 months after aneurysmectomy. Left ventricular reserve was estimated by analysis of a spontaneous postextrasystolic b...

Left ventricular aneurysmectomy with continuous beating heart: early results

Objective: Operative mortality after left ventricle aneurysmectomy is close to 15%. Specifically for this procedure, forms of myocardial protection have been little discussed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate immediate results of left anterior ventricular aneurysmectomy using the beating heart approach. Method: We performed a retrospective analysis of 34 patients who underwent a left a...

Ventricular aneurysmectomy for recurrent tachycardia.

Ventricular aneurysm is a well-documented complication of myocardial infarction. The usual indications for surgical removal of an aneurysm include congestive cardiac failure or thrombo-embolic episodes refractory to medical treatment. In a review of the published reports we could find no report of any aneurysm being removed for the control of arrhythmias. We wish to report a case of a patient w...

Closure of postinfarction ventricular septal defect, left ventricular aneurysmectomy, and coronary artery bypass graft. Case report.