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1954693

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-31
pubmed:abstractText
In a 49-year-old male with fever, dyspnea, and chest pain, thoracic x-ray revealed pneumonia with enlarged heart silhouette. Antibiotics were successful, pneumonia healed and complaints disappeared. Yet, during the following 3 months, echocardiography showed mild persistent pericardial effusion while in ECG both sinus tachycardia and ST-T changes were found suggesting chronic pericarditis. Magnetic resonance imaging, however, revealed an extensive posterobasal aneurysm with pericardial effusion substantiated by ventriculography. Coronary angiography showed diffuse three-vessel disease. Surgery revealed aneurysm with distinct perforation of the left ventricle and pericardial thrombi, thus aneurysmectomy as well as bypass grafts were performed. One year postoperatively, magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the absence of aneurysm with only a small irreversible posterobasal perfusion defect remaining as shown by thallium scintigraphy.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0160-9289
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
853-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Perforated ventricular aneurysm in a male suffering from pneumonia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports