Diverticular and aneurysmal structures of the left ventricle in adults: Report of a case within the context of a literature review

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 699-705

  Makkuni, Premraj ^a   Kotler, Morris N ^a   Figueredo, Vincent M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Cardiomyopathies diagnosis epidemiology therapy; Congenital complications diagnosis surgery; Diagnosis; Differential; Diverticulum congenital diagnosis surgery; False diagnosis mortality surgery; Heart aneurysm diagnosis etiology mortality physiopathology radiography surgery; Heart defects; Heart rupture; Heart ventricles abnormalities pathology surgery; Myocardial infarction complications; Post infarction etiology therapy; Treatment outcome; Ventricular septal rupture etiology

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE;

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FENESTRATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SYSTOLE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULUM; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 79251516109     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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