A case of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm with long survival and congestive heart failure as first presentation. Case report and review of the literature

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Varvarigos, Nikolaos ^a   Koletsis, Efstratios ^b,c   Zaflropoulos, Athanasios ^a   Papaioannou, Harilaos ^a   Migdalls, Ilias ^a  

^a NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Heart failure; Left ventricle; Pseudoaneurysm

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 28144439526     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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