A Case of Successful Emergency
Dor's Operation for Left Ventricular Aneurysm with Acute Heart
Failure
Takeki Ohashi
Nobuhiro Sakamoto
(Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Nagoya Tokushukai
General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan)
An 84-year-old woman was admitted
on an emergency basis for dyspnea and cyanosis. Large left ventricular
aneurysm with uncontrollable ventricular tachycardia was diagnosed.
After intubation and intraaortic balloon pumping insertion, ventricular
aneurysmal exclusion with patch plication (Dor's method) was
successfully performed. The postoperative course was uneventful
and the patient was discharged 2 months after the operation.
Left ventricular function improved and ventricular tachycardia
disappeared. The patient is now doing well with (NYHA functional
class 2) eight months after the operation.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 31：58-60 (2002)
