TY - JOUR AU - Landi, Antonio AU - Andres, Anto Luigi AU - Napodano, Massimo PY - 2020/03/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Late recurrence of a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: the importance of multimodality imaging approach JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 1 SE - Cardiology - Case Reports DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1232 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1232 SP - AB - <p>Left ventricular pseudoaneurysms (LVP) are rare but may arise after myocardial infarction, trauma or cardiac surgery, tending to expand and rupture over the time. We show the case of a 75-year-old patient with a recurrent giant ventricular pseudoaneurysm, who presented to the emergency department with sustained ventricular tachycardia. Pseudoaneurysmatic lesion was investigated through echocardiography, angiography and Cardiac Computed Tomography, in order to evaluate the size and spatial orientation of the pseudoaneurysm and to set a tailored treatment. At emergency department, sustained ventricular tachycardia may be the first and unique clinical presentation of ventricular pseudoaneurysm late recurrence, whose management requires a multimodality imaging approach to guide surgical correction.</p> ER -