Silent and huge left ventricular pseudoaneurysm with left atrial compression: dedicated spatial resolution and geometry by 3-dimensional echocardiography

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007 Jun;20(6):772.e5-9. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.12.007.

Abstract

An 83-year-old man with acute inferior wall myocardial infarction underwent successful percutaneous coronary intervention for right coronary artery. Subsequent echocardiography 3 days later showed an incidental huge cardiac chamber compressing left atrium. The chamber was found to have a narrow neck connecting with left ventricle, suggestive of a pseudoaneurysm. Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography could clearly demonstrate the spatial relationship between pseudoaneurysm and corresponding cardiac chambers, and its precise location and the orifice of pseudoaneurysm. A myocardial break-out point resembling a bird beak with a flap could also be clearly seen and quantified by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. This patient underwent surgical resection and the serial follow-up remained uneventful.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnostic imaging*
  • Aorta / diagnostic imaging*
  • Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional*
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings
  • Male
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging*