Clinical characteristics and outcome in postinfarction pseudoaneurysm

T C Yeo; J F Malouf; G S Reeder; J K Oh

doi:10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00385-9

Clinical characteristics and outcome in postinfarction pseudoaneurysm

Am J Cardiol. 1999 Sep 1;84(5):592-5, A8. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00385-9.

Authors

T C Yeo¹, J F Malouf, G S Reeder, J K Oh

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.

PMID: 10482162
DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00385-9

Abstract

The clinical characteristics and outcome in 22 patients with postinfarction pseudoaneurysm were studied. The medium-term outcome was poor (median follow-up 3.6 years), but cardiac rupture was uncommon in patients treated conservatively.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aneurysm, False / diagnostic imaging*
Aneurysm, False / mortality
Aneurysm, False / surgery
Echocardiography*
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Female
Heart Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Aneurysm / mortality
Heart Aneurysm / surgery
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
Myocardial Infarction / mortality
Myocardial Infarction / surgery
Survival Rate