Ventricular aneurysms of the heart are outpouchings of the ventricular wall which typically occur as a complication of myocardial infarction.
Left ventricular aneurysms occur after 2-15% of infarcts and have a 5-year survival of 10-25%.
The clinical consequences include:
The diagnosis may be made on cardiac imaging:
A quarter of patients with a ventricular aneurysm show persistent ST elevation in the territory of the myocardial infarction.
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