Affiliation:
1. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
Abstract
A 56-year-old man was readmitted to our hospital because of cardiac silhouette enlargement. One month before admission, he suffered cardiac tamponade due to an oozing rupture of the left ventricle 4 days after an acute posterior myocardial infarction and was salvaged by pericardial drainage. Upon readmission, computed tomography revealed a giant pseudoaneurysm (105 × 85 × 75 mm3) in the posterior wall of the left ventricle. The patient underwent aneurysmal repair successfully.