VOLUME 2 NO. 3 SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2001

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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

PSEUDOANEURYSM, VSD, AND TRUE ANEURYSM IN A PATIENT WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Fig. 1

Fig. 1. TEE shows right ventricular posteroapical pseudoaneurysm (AN), narrow neck of aneurysm (red arrow), and apical VSD (green arrow)

Fig. 2

Fig. 2. TEE color- Doppler shows color aliasing (red arrows) in the LV apex and RV apex indicating left to right shunting through the apical VSD.  There is also color aliasing in the RV apical pseudoanuerysm

Fig. 3

Fig. 3.  TEE 2 chamber view shows a large basal inferoposterior true aneurysm.

 

From the Echocardiography Laboratory, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.