Incidental Finding of Left Ventricular False Chamber: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications.
Antonello CuccaroFederico De MarcoDomenico LumiaMattia BarbieroRoberto De PontiPublished in: Case reports in medicine (2018)
We present the case of a 75-year-old man with incidental finding of a left ventricular false chamber at echocardiography. A multimodality imaging approach including also transesophageal echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging allowed to better characterize the lesion and identify it as a pseudoaneurysm. Surgery showed an infective aetiology, which is rare, due to the finding of a large abscess in the cavity.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance imaging
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- heart failure
- acute myocardial infarction
- left atrial
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- minimally invasive
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- coronary artery bypass
- pulmonary hypertension
- magnetic resonance
- contrast enhanced
- acute coronary syndrome
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- photodynamic therapy
- diffusion weighted imaging