Surgical Treatment of Rare Giant Inferoposterior Left Ventricular Aneurysm: A Case Report
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1532/hsf.2251Abstract
We present the case of a 63-year-old male with post-myocardial infarction causing a giant left ventricular aneurysm and describe the surgical treatment via Dor Procedure.
References
Calafiore AM, Gallina S, DiMauro M et al. 2003. Left ventricular aneurysmectomy: Endoventricular circular patch plasty or septoexclusion. J Card Surg 18:93-100.
Dor V, Saab M, Coste P et al. 1989. Left ventricular aneurysm: A new surgical approach. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 37:11-19.
Dor V, Sabatier M, Di Donato M et al. 1998. Efficacy of endoventricular patch plasty in large postinfarction akinetic scar and severe left ventricular dysfunction: Comparison with a series of large dyskinetic scars. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 116:50-59.
Glower DD, Lowe JE. 2008. Left ventricular aneurysm. In Cohn LH (ed): Cardiac Surgery in the Adult. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 803-822.
Inan MB, Yazicioglu L, Acikgoz B, Tasoz R, Ozyurda U. 2012. Giant posterolateral left ventricular aneurysm diagnosed 6 weeks after incomplete surgical revascularization. Ann Thorac Surg 93:980-982.
Ohara K. 2000. Current surgical strategy for post-infarction left ventricular aneurysm-from linear aneurysmecomy to Dor’s operation. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 6:289-294.
Parolari A, Naliato M, Loardi C et al. 2007. Surgery of left ventricular aneurysm: A meta-analysis of early outcomes following different reconstruction techniques. Ann Thorac Surg 83:2009-2016.
Raja SG, Salehi S, Bahrami TT. 2009. Impact of technique of left ventricular aneurysm repair on clinical outcomes: current best available evidence. J Card Surg 24:319-324.
Shapira OM, Davidoff R, Hilkert RJ et al. 1997. Repair of left ventricular aneurysm: Long-term results of linear repair versus endoaneurysmorrhaphy. Ann Thorac Surg 63:701-705.
Subban V, Makadia N, Rajaram RS, Ravikumar R, Kurian VM, Sankardas MA. 2009. Giant left ventricular aneurysm complicating silent inferoposterior myocardial infarction. J Card Surg 24:697-699.
Tekümit H, Polat A, Uyar I et al. 2010. Left ventricular aneurysm using the Dor technique: mid-term results. J Card Surg 25:147-152.
