Successful Repair of a Left Ventricular Aneurysm after Blunt Chest Trauma in a Child

AUTOR(ES)

Lukács, László

RESUMO

A 5-year-old boy sustained multiple serious injuries, including compression trauma to the chest, when he was struck by a piece of timber. Two-dimensional echocardiography and left ventricular angiography revealed a left ventricular apical aneurysm, which was successfully repaired with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. To our knowledge, this is only the 5th case in which a left ventricular aneurysm resulting from closed-chest injury in a child has been successfully treated. (Texas Heart Institute Journal 1988;15:195-197)

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