A giant congenital left ventricular diverticulum presenting with heart failure symptoms in a pediatric patient can be successfully treated with surgical excision and patch reconstruction.
A 9-year-old male patient was referred to our institution with mild symptoms and signs of cardiac failure. Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the echocardiographic suspicion of a giant left ventricular outpouching considered as an aneurysm, communicating with the left ventricle by a very large neck and exhibiting a paradoxal motion. We performed a successful surgical excision of the pouch with a Foto-Fix® patch reconstruction of the free left ventricular wall. Histological examination of the …
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