Huge Left Ventricular Aneurysm in a Young Patient Diagnosed with a 4 Slice CT Scanner at University of Gondar Hospital; a Case Report and Review of Literature
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
A case of huge left ventricular aneurysm of submitral type in a 21 year old Ethiopian patient is presented. This rare type of LVA is reported in young black Africans in Nigeria and South Africa but never in East Africa. The patient presented with cough and chest pain of two months whose posteroanterior chest radiograph showed nonspecific cardiomegally. Cardiac ultrasound and cardiac computed tomography (CT) showed a huge left ventricular aneurysm localized in the submitral posterolateral wall of the left ventricle. This is a first case of submitral left ventricular aneurysm reported from Ethiopia.
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Zerubabel Tegegne Desita
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- DOI 10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/15475
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