A 64-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery 2 years earlier presented with a bulging mass on the anterior chest wall 2 weeks after minor chest trauma. She denied having any symptoms, and her examination was remarkable only for a pulsatile mass in the left parasternal area of the anterior chest wall. Her ECG revealed sinus rhythm with nonspecific ST-T changes. Her ...

A 43-year-old man collapsed suddenly, with pericardial tamponade, seven weeks after an inferior myocardial infarction. Pericardiocentesis disclosed very heavily blood stained fluid. Left ventricular angiography 10 days later showed a left ventricular aneurysm. At operation a left ventricular false aneurysm was resected and the patient recovered uneventfully.

A 24-year-old Croatian soldier sustained a comminuted fracture of the femur and after stabilization with AO external fixation an infected late false aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery developed. The aneurysm was extirpated and the artery reconstructed using the saphenous vein.

OBJECTIVES False aneurysm of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) is one of complications after surgery of congenital heart disease. It is controversial about materials for reconstruction of RVOT in this setting, when associated with pulmonary hypertension or bacterial infection. Pulmonary homograft seems to be the first choice, but its availability is extremely limited in Japan. METHOD...

rom the Departments of Cardiology, †Radiology, nd ‡Cardiovascular Surgery, ichat Hospital, Paris, rance. anuscript received ugust 24, 2009; ccepted September 9, 2009. A40-year-old-man required, in 2007, the implantation of a stentless valved conduit for destructive aortic endocarditis. In 2009, he presented with dyspnea and a new aortic regurgitation murmur, but no argument for endocarditis. Tr...

Purpose False positive diagnoses of cerebral aneurysm via magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) screening may increase unnecessary cerebral catheter angiography. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of medical liability on medical decision-making during radiologic interpretation. Materials and Methods We included 56 consecutive patients who were referred with suspected aneu...

The diagnosis of intrahepatic aneurysm was suspected following radioisotope scintigraphic studies. A patient developed abdominal pain following blunt abdominal trauma. The scintigrams of the liver revealed a large intrahepatic defect and separation between lung and liver. Angiogram revealed a large false aneurysm of the right hepatic artery.

A nine month old infant with life threatening tracheal compression due to a Blalock-Taussig shunt aneurysm is described. Successful surgical management is discussed.

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...

False aneurysm degeneration is a known complication of patch aortoplasty for coarctation of the aortic isthmus. Open surgical treatment consists of prosthetic graft repair of the involved aorta, often requires circulatory arrest to achieve a safe proximal aortic control and perform proximal anastomosis, and finally is associated with substantial perioperative morbidity. Endografting of the dise...