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(Chest. 1973;63:628-631.)
© 1973 American College of Chest Physicians

Ventricular Aneurysms and Blunt Chest Trauma

Gary M. Silver M.D.1; Nicola Spampinato M.D.1; Rene G. Favaloro M.D.1; and Laurence K. Groves M.D.1

1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgary. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and The Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation, Cleveland

A patient with blunt chest trauma leading to a left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) is presented and the literature is reviewed. The common pathophysiologic factor in the formation of these aneurysms appears to be obstruction of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). A wareness of this might, under idcal circumstances, lend to emergency coronary catheterization and saphenous vein grafting preventing the formation of a LVA in a relatively young person.




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