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Transesophageal Two‐ and Three‐Dimensional Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Combined Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm and Ventricular Septal Rupture
Author(s) -
Nekkanti Rajasekhar,
Nanda Navin C.,
Zoghbi Gilbert J.,
Mukhtar Osman,
McGiffin David C.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00345.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , pseudoaneurysm , mediastinitis , radiology , lesion , heart aneurysm , left ventricular aneurysm , surgery , complication , myocardial infarction
Two‐ (2‐D) and three‐dimensional (3‐D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) were useful in making the diagnosis of combined left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and ventricular septal rupture in an elderly patient presenting with mediastinitis and worsening heart failure following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The diagnosis was not suspected clinically. Three‐dimensional TEE served to increase the confidence level with which the diagnosis of this combined lesion was made. Additionally, 3‐D TEE proved superior to 2‐D TEE in assessing the size of the left ventricular rupture site.