JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL
Online ISSN : 1347-4839
Print ISSN : 0047-1828
ISSN-L : 0047-1828
RIGHT VENTRICULAR ANEURYSM DUE TO CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DEFECT IN AN ADULT
YUTAKA TAKINOKIMIO ITOHNOBORU KUZIRAIMASAHARU HASHIDAH IROSHI KANDATADASHI SUZUKIYUJI YOKOTE
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1988 Volume 52 Issue 1 Pages 84-88

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A large right ventricular aneurysm was detected by an echocardiographic examination in a 50-year-old woman presenting with weakness, collapse and hypotension. At surgery, another smaller aneurysm, arising from the anterior infundibulum of the right ventricle, was found in addition to the large one. Both were resected. Histological studies on the resected specimen revealed that much of the myocardium was replaced by adipose tissue. As far as we know this is the first reported case in Japan in which two congenital aneurysms arose from the right ventricle as a result of muscular defect.

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