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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

Zerubabel Tegegne Desita

International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports · pp. 44–50 · Published 10 Jan 2015

10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/15475

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.

Ventricular aneurysm cardiac ultrasound CT scan of the heart.

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