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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;32:799. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.07.030
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier. All rights reserved.
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Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Video-assisted trans-mitral left ventricular false aneurysm repair with a septal occluder

Parwis B. Rahmanian, Farzan Filsoufi*, Javier G. Castillo, David H. Adams

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Received 2 July 2007; received in revised form 13 July 2007; accepted 16 July 2007.

* Corresponding author. Address: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1190 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029-1028, USA. Tel.: +1 212 659 6820; fax: +1 212 659 6818. (Email: farzan.filsoufi@mountsinai.org).

Key Words: Aneurysm • Device • Left ventricle • Reoperation

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A 41-year-old male with a history of myocardial stab-wound, which was repaired with a patch through a sternotomy 25 years ago, presented with a large calcified false aneurysm at the left ventricular antero-lateral free wall (Fig. 1 ). He underwent a video-assisted trans-mitral false aneurysm repair using a septal occluder (Fig. 2 ).


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  		Fig. 1. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showing a large false aneurysm communicating with the left ventricle through a small neck which measures 10 mm x 7 mm. The left ventricular antero-lateral free wall is completely covered by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 





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