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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
Year : 2018  |  Volume : 19  |  Issue : 4  |  Page : 156-157  

A silent large left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm presenting as congestive heart failure


Department of Cardiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Date of Web Publication15-Apr-2019

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Dr. Gopal Chandra Ghosh
Room No 310, Hospital Annexe, Christian Medical College, CMC Hospital Campus, Vellore - 632 004, Tamil Nadu
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_103_17

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Ghosh GC, Alex AG. A silent large left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm presenting as congestive heart failure. Heart Views 2018;19:156-7

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Ghosh GC, Alex AG. A silent large left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm presenting as congestive heart failure. Heart Views [serial online] 2018 [cited 2023 Sep 22];19:156-7. Available from: https://www.heartviews.org/text.asp?2018/19/4/156/256231



A40-year-old male smoker without any other discernible risk factors for coronary artery disease presented with complaints of progressively increasing shortness of breath and swelling of bilateral feet for the past 3 months. He did not have any history suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed a large thick-walled cavity with a narrow base attached to the left ventricular apex suggestive of a pseudoaneurysm (PSA) [Figure 1] and [Figure 2]. The PSA cavity was layered with thrombus [Figure 3] and [Figure 4] [Figure 1] showed to-and-fro blood flow into it.
Figure 1: Apical four chamber view showing to-and-fro blood flow into the pseudoaneurysm cavity

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Figure 2: Modified parasternal long-axis view showing a large pseudoaneurysm with layered thrombus contained by pericardium

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Figure 3: Modified parasternal long-axis view showing thick-walled pseudoaneurysm cavity with layered thrombus

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Figure 4: Computed tomography scan coronal view showing large pseudoaneurysm at the apex of the left ventricle contained by layered thrombus and pericardium

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