Key result
An isolated left ventricular diverticulum compressed the left main coronary artery, causing an extensive anterior myocardial infarction and sudden death in a 20-year-old man.
Population
20-year-old Aboriginal man admitted to hospital with chest pain
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
1 day
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to consider left ventricular diverticulum in young sudden death; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
A rare case demonstrating that an isolated left ventricular diverticulum can compress the left main coronary artery, leading to fatal myocardial infarction.
Cooke et al. (1991) studied this question. An isolated left ventricular diverticulum compressed the left main coronary artery, causing an extensive anterior myocardial infarction and sudden death in a 20-year-old man.
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