Open AccessTwo Cases with Similar Pseudoaneurysms but Different Outcomes
Author(s) -
Bildirici Ulaş,
Agacdiken Aysen,
Ural Ertan,
Kahraman Goksel,
Komsuoglu Baki
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20311
Subject(s) - medicine , medline , aneurysm , radiology , surgery , law , political science
The pseudoaneurysm is a rare cardiac pathology, in which the left ventricular free wall ruptures and the pericardium surrounds the rupture in combination with thrombus and inflammation and thus prevents the development of a hemopericardium. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm may remain silent unless it gives rise to cardiac tamponade, collapse, and finally sudden death. In this case report, we present two cases with left ventricular pseudoaneurysms in the same area. One of them had a stable outcome and the other had a fatal outcome. Copyright © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.