Unexpected Left Ventricle Pseudoaneurysm With Unusual Origin: History of a Diseased Annulus Broken Into a Diseased Myocardium

Attilio Restivo; Luca Maggio; Gabriella Locorotondo; Federico Costa; Giancarlo Savino; Antonella Lombardo; Cristina Aurigemma; Enrico Romagnoli; Carlo Trani; Francesca Graziani; Francesco Burzotta

doi:10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.015222

Unexpected Left Ventricle Pseudoaneurysm With Unusual Origin: History of a Diseased Annulus Broken Into a Diseased Myocardium

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Oct;16(10):e015222. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.015222. Epub 2023 Jun 7.

Authors

Attilio Restivo^#^{1

2}, Luca Maggio^#^{1

2}, Gabriella Locorotondo¹, Federico Costa³, Giancarlo Savino^{3

2}, Antonella Lombardo^{1

2}, Cristina Aurigemma¹, Enrico Romagnoli¹, Carlo Trani^{1

2}, Francesca Graziani^#¹, Francesco Burzotta^#^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (A.R., L.M., G.L., A.L., C.A., E.R., C.T., F.G., F.B.), Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
² Department of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy (A.R., L.M., G.S., A.L., C.T., F.B.).
³ Department of Radiological and Hematological Sciences (F.C., G.S.), Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 37283043
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.015222

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac aneurysm; cardiac ventricle; cardiac-gated imaging techniques; case reports; echocardiography; multimodal imaging; valvular heart diseases.

MeSH terms

Aneurysm, False* / complications
Aneurysm, False* / diagnostic imaging
Aneurysm, False* / surgery
Heart Aneurysm* / diagnostic imaging
Heart Aneurysm* / surgery
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Myocardium