"Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is an uncommon complication after transmural myocardial infarction, occurring when a free wall rupture is contained by adhesions of the overlying pericardium preventing acute tamponade. In this report, an unusual case of a 61 year-old male with a giant apical left ven...

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Autores principales: Gomes, Renata, Andrade, Maria João, Santos, Miguel, Lima, Sónia, Gouveia, Raquel A, Ferreira, Manuel M, Silva, José Aniceto
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19615103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-36
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author Gomes, Renata
Andrade, Maria João
Santos, Miguel
Lima, Sónia
Gouveia, Raquel A
Ferreira, Manuel M
Silva, José Aniceto
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Andrade, Maria João
Santos, Miguel
Lima, Sónia
Gouveia, Raquel A
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description Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is an uncommon complication after transmural myocardial infarction, occurring when a free wall rupture is contained by adhesions of the overlying pericardium preventing acute tamponade. In this report, an unusual case of a 61 year-old male with a giant apical left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after an unnoticed myocardial infarction is presented. On coronary angiogram myocardial bridging of the distal left anterior descending artery was judged to be the infarct related lesion. The echocardiographic diagnosis allowed for a timely surgical intervention which resulted in the patient's full recovery.
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spelling pubmed-27369302009-09-03 "Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report Gomes, Renata Andrade, Maria João Santos, Miguel Lima, Sónia Gouveia, Raquel A Ferreira, Manuel M Silva, José Aniceto Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is an uncommon complication after transmural myocardial infarction, occurring when a free wall rupture is contained by adhesions of the overlying pericardium preventing acute tamponade. In this report, an unusual case of a 61 year-old male with a giant apical left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after an unnoticed myocardial infarction is presented. On coronary angiogram myocardial bridging of the distal left anterior descending artery was judged to be the infarct related lesion. The echocardiographic diagnosis allowed for a timely surgical intervention which resulted in the patient's full recovery. BioMed Central 2009-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2736930/ /pubmed/19615103 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-36 Text en Copyright © 2009 Gomes et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gomes, Renata
Andrade, Maria João
Santos, Miguel
Lima, Sónia
Gouveia, Raquel A
Ferreira, Manuel M
Silva, José Aniceto
"Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
title "Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
title_full "Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
title_fullStr "Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
title_full_unstemmed "Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
title_short "Mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
title_sort "mushroom cloud": a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after a myocardial infarction due to myocardial bridging – a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19615103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-36
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