Successful surgery for a tuberculous left ventricular aneurysm in a child

Abstract

SummaryAn 18-month-old black child became ill one month prior to admission to our center. She was shown to be Mantoux positive, with evidence of cardiomegaly on x-ray. Echocardiography revealed a progressive enlarging left ventricular aneurysm—a finding confirmed at cardiac catheterization. She underwent successful resection of the aneurysm. Histology proved it to be tuberculous in origin. To our knowledge, this is the youngest patient reported with such an aneurysm, and the first to have survived surgical correction.