Three-dimensional echocardiography for predicting postoperative ventricular volumes after surgical ventricular reconstruction of left ventricular aneurysm: A case-based presentation.
María Teresa PolitiMartín Federico VivasEduardo FilipiniIván ChillikLaura Mariana RiznykGustavo AveglianoRicardo RonderosPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)
Three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (3DTTE) may have a role in predicting final left ventricular volumes and clinical response after the surgical ventricular reconstruction (SVR) of left ventricular aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms. Left ventricle final volumes can be calculated through "virtual aneurysmectomy." We present a patient with a huge ventricular dilation combined with myocardial dissection, localized wall rupture, and aneurysm of the left ventricular apex after acute myocardial infarction in which accurate predictions from 3DTTE suggest potential clinical value.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- acute myocardial infarction
- mitral valve
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- heart failure
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- aortic stenosis
- left atrial
- coronary artery
- case report
- pulmonary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- patients undergoing
- computed tomography
- high resolution
- climate change
- aortic valve
- risk assessment
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement