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A case of left ventricular false aneurysm of postinfarctual etiology with an unusually prolonged natural history (12 years survival) is reported. A first diagnosis of this rare cardiac complication was made in 1982 on the basis of hemodynamic and echocardiographic results. At that time the patient rejected surgical therapy. Eleven years later the patient came back to our attention after resuscitation from a sudden cardiac death. Hemodynamic and echocardiographic (transesophageal) tests showed a remarkable impairment of left ventricular function and an abnormal enlargement (10 x 8 cm) of a pseudoaneurysmatic cavity full of thrombi. The patient died suddenly in April 1994. We emphasize the unusual, prolonged survival of our patient suffering from an unresected left ventricular false aneurysm of postinfarctual etiology.
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