Surgical treatment of a chest-wall penetrating left ventricular pseudoaneurysm.

Bauer, M; Musci, M; Pasic, M; Knollmann, F; Hetzer, R · Ann Thorac Surg · 2000

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

This report describes the treatment of a patient who developed a chest-wall penetrating pseudoaneurysm 3 years after coronary bypass grafting and after the resection of a lateral wall left ventricular aneurysm twice. The patient presented with a pulsatile tumor in the left submammilar region. Surgery was done in deep hypothermia, with femoro-femoral cannulation and via a left anterolateral thoracotomy. The perioperative course was uneventful and the patient is still well 5 years after surgery.

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