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Annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm in Bahia, Brazil.

1976; BMJ; Volume: 38; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/hrt.38.10.1080

1468-201X

Armênio Costa Guimarães, Ademar Santos Filho, J. P. Esteves, Waldeck Neves Abreu, Lúcia Azevedo Vinhaes, J A de Almeida Souza, Adilson Matheus Borges Machado,

Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade

Two cases of left ventricular aneurysm, a 16-year-old black boy and a 23-year-old white girl, from Bahia, Brazil, are presented. In both patients there was enlargement of the cardiac silhouette and a prominent bulge of the left inferior border. On the right oblique view a ring of calcium at the ventricular opening of the aneurysms was visualized. A left ventriculogram showed a huge aneurysm in the first case and a bulge on the lateral wall of the left ventricle in the other. Cardiac catheterization showed a rise in left and right ventricular end-diastolic pressures and in the mean pulmonary artery pressure. In the first case the contour of the right ventricular pressure curve showed a restrictive pattern. The similarities of these aneurysms with the annular submitral type described in young black Africans are stressed.