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Urgent surgery fails to prevent death in tuberculous pericarditis complicated by LV pseudoaneurysm perforation.
Case Report (n=1)
This is the first reported case of tuberculous pericarditis complicated by a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and perforation.
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LV pseudoaneurysm may complicate tuberculous pericarditis in young adults; first case leaves open optimal diagnostic and surgical strategies.
We report a case of an 18-year-old man without tuberculosis history who presented with chest distress, dyspnea, and fever. Chest computed tomography scan and echocardiography showed left ventricular posterior wall pseudoaneurysm and perforation. Unfortunately, the patient died shortly after surgery. On the basis of surgical pathology, we made a final diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis complicated with left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. This has not been reported before in the published literature.
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Chen et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm and tuberculous pericarditis (n=1). Surgery was evaluated on Death.
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