Table 1 Overview of published case reports of a left ventricular pseudo aneurysm after purulent peri/pancarditis
From: Infectious pseudo-aneurysm of the left ventricle: a case report and a review of the literature
Study (Year of publication), [ref] | Age (years) | Sex | Location pseudoaneurysm | Diagnostic methods | Micro-organism | initial presentation | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sadan et al. (1981) [1] | 6 | F | Left ventricular posterior wall | Left ventriculogram | Staph. Aureus | Femoral osteomyelitis | Survived |
Wiegers et al. (1988) [2] | 28 | F | Left ventricular postero-medial wall | Echocardiogram Left ventriculography | Staph. Aureus | Intravenous drug abuser/bacteremia | Died |
Roberts et al. (1991) [3] | 33 | F | Left ventricular posterior wall | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Echocardiogram Left ventriculography | Staph. Aureus | Intravenous drug abuser/pericarditis | Not reported |
Campos et al. (1996) [4] | 8 | M | Left ventricular posterior wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomographic Scanning Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Staph. Aureus | Femoral osteomyelitis | Survived |
de Boer et al. (1999) [5] | 2 | F | Left ventricular wall | Echocardiogram | Staph. Aureus | Chicken pox/bacteremia | Survived |
Moraes et al. (1999) [6] | 4 | F | Left ventricular posterolateral wall | Echocardiogram Left ventriculogram | Staph. Aureus | Pneumonia and subsequent septic arthritis | Survived |
Osula et al. (2001) [7] | 33 | F | Left ventricular free wall (apical) | Echocardiogram Left ventricular angiogram | Staph. Aureus | Intravenous drug abuser/bacteremia | Survived |
Deng et al. (2003) [8] | 13 | F | Left ventricular lateral wall | Echocardiogram | Staph. Aureus | Pneumonia | Survived |
Yamabi et al. (2004) [9] | 35 | M | Left ventricular posterior wall | Echocardiogram Left ventricular angiogram | Staph. Aureus | Sepsis | Survived |
Arifi et al. (2004) [10] | 20 | F | Left ventricular wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomographic Scanning | Staph. Aureus | Sepsis/endocarditis mitral valve | Survived |
Vijayvergiya et al. (2008) [11] | 52 | M | Left ventricular anterolateral wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography | Streptococcus viridans | Pyopericardium/empyema | Died |
Chen et al. (2010) [12] | 79 | F | Posterior wall of the left ventricle | Computed Tomography Echocardiogram | Staph. Aureus | Bacteremia/pericarditis | Survived |
Wei et al. (2014) [13] | 18 | M | Left ventricular posterolateral wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomographic Scanning | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Dyspnea low grade fever. | Died |
Nair et al. (2014) [14] | 6 | M | Left ventricular posterolateral wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography | MRSA Acinetobacter species | Sepsis | Survived |
Desai et al. (2015) [15] | 2 | F | Left ventricular lateral wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography | No growth of organisms | Intermittent fever | Survived |
Krishna et al. (2015) [16] | 1.5 | F | Left ventricle below posterior mitral leaflet | Trans esophageal echocardiography | Staph. Aureus | Fever/pericarditis | Survived |
Lindblom et al. (2015) [17] | 48 | M | Left ventricular posteroinferior wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomography | No growth of organisms | Fever/pericarditis | Survived |
Sunkara et al. (2015) [18] | 48 | M | Left ventricular basal infero-lateral wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography | Streptococcus Viridans | Pericarditis | Died |
Arora et al. (2015) [19] | 6 | M | Left ventricular inferior septal wall | Echocardiogram | MRSA | Sepsis/arthritis | Survived |
Yeh et al. (2016) [20] | 46 | M | Left ventricular antero-lateral wall | Computed Tomography Cardiac catheterization | Klebsiella pneumoniae | Fever/Pericarditis | Survived |
Sreevathsa et al. (2018) [21] | 9 | M | Left ventricular posteroinferior wall | Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Left ventricular angiography | Mycobacterium Tuberculosis | Retrosternal chest pain/palpitations | Survived |
Sreevathsa et al. (2018) [21] | 3 | F | Posterior wall of the left ventricle | Not reported | Possible Mycobacterium Tuberculosis | Tibial osteomyelitis | Not reported |
Sreevathsa et al. (2018) [21] | 6 | F | Left ventricular posterolateral wall | Echocardiogram | Possible Varicella Zoster | Varicella zoster infection | Died |