This case highlights the presentation and angiographic diagnosis of a massive inferobasal left ventricular pseudoaneurysm as a mechanical complication of an inferior STEMI.
A man in his 70s presented with chest pain and collapse following an inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography confirmed severe left anterior descending (LAD) and second obtuse marginal occlusion and a massive inferobasal left ventricular (LV) wall pseudoaneurysm ([figure 1][
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