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Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery 2:84-86(2003)
© 2003 European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Case report - Cardiac general

Delayed diagnosis of a post-traumatic ventricular aneurysm?

Marcin Dada1,1, Luc Noyez*, Freek W.A. Verheugt and Rene M.H.J. Brouwer

Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University Medical Center Nijmegen, St. Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +31-24-361-4744; fax: +31-24-354-0129
l.noyez{at}thorax.umcn.nl

A 52-year-old man was developed pleural effusion and congestive heart failure after a routine orthopedic operation. A compression of atrium and right ventricle, by a calcified mass was discovered. The patient remembered having a blunt chest trauma 34 years before. We believe that the mass, an old hematoma, which was resected, was the result of on occult post-traumatic ventricular aneurysm.

Key Words: Ventricular; Trauma; Aneurysm; Diagnosis

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