September 1, 2020Oxford Medical Case ReportsOpen Access

Left ventricular aneurysm: a rare complication of an acute myocardial infarction in the modern era

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Population

A 56-year-old female presenting with inferolateral STEMI >48 h after chest pain onset

Design

Case report

Authors

SKS. KhannaCardiac Imaging ABA. BhatBlacktown & Mount Druitt Hospital MMMahidi MardiniWestmead Hospital

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Implication

May signal LV thrombus risk after late STEMI; leaves open optimal surveillance and anticoagulation protocols.

Structured PICO

Population

A 56-year-old female with a history of well-controlled hypertension and gastroesophageal reflux disease presenting with an inferolateral ST segment elevation myocardial infarction >48 h after the onset of chest pain.

Intervention

Coronary angiogram with drug-eluting stent to the left circumflex coronary artery, followed by left ventricular aneurysmectomy and repair with a bovine pericardial patch.

Outcome

Clinical course, imaging characterization (echocardiography and CT), and surgical repair of a large left ventricular aneurysm.

This case highlights the value of multimodality imaging in diagnosing and guiding the surgical management of large left ventricular aneurysms, a rare complication of late-presenting myocardial infarction in the modern percutaneous coronary intervention era.

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Khanna et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7aa91c64a2339647025489 https://doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omaa080

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Left ventricular aneurysm: a rare complication of an acute myocardial infarction in the modern era

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Left ventricular aneurysm: a rare complication of an acute myocardial infarction in the modern era

Discussion

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Structured PICO

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