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| A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS |
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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 156-157 |
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A silent large left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm presenting as congestive heart failure
Gopal Chandra Ghosh, Anoop George Alex
Department of Cardiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
| Date of Web Publication | 15-Apr-2019 |
Correspondence Address:
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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DOI: 10.4103/HEARTVIEWS.HEARTVIEWS_103_17
How to cite this article:
Ghosh GC, Alex AG. A silent large left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm presenting as congestive heart failure. Heart Views 2018;19:156-7 |
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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