Key result
Acquired LV aneurysms carry reported survival times of up to 10 years.
Why the study?
The prognosis of acquired left ventricular aneurysm has evolved with improved clinical recognition and diagnostic methods, warranting reevaluation.
Highlights the increasing ante mortem diagnosis of acquired left ventricular aneurysm and the need for re-evaluating its prognosis based on longer survival times reported in the literature.
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Survival estimates for left ventricular aneurysm vary widely; leaves open whether modern diagnostics alter prognosis or management.
PRIOR to 1931, the diagnosis of acquired aneurysm of the left ventricle was made only ten times ante mortem.1 , 2 With the better appreciation of the significance of the clinical features of this condition and the increased use of modern diagnostic facilities, more and more cases have been reported in the literature, and a new evaluation of the prognosis is warranted. Thus, although in Parkinson, Bedford, and Thomson's3 cases, the longest survival was thirty months, in Dressier and Pfeiffer's4 cases it was seven years. Young and Schwedel5 have reported the case of a patient who survived for ten years after the . . .
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Caplan et al. (1949) conducted a review in Acquired aneurysm of the left ventricle. Prognosis and survival of acquired aneurysm of the left ventricle have been increasingly evaluated, with reported survival times ranging from thirty months to ten years.
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