Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 272-274, August 2006

Congenital Left Ventricular Diverticulum

  • Arjamand Shauq, MRCP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Alder Hey Royal Children Hospital, Liverpool, UK
    • ,
  • Vijay Agarwal, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alder Hey Royal Children Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 151 2525635; fax: +44 151 2525643.
    • ,
  • Cinzia Crawley, FRCR

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatric Radiology, Alder Hey Royal Children Hospital, Liverpool, UK

Received 21 June 2005; received in revised form 2 October 2005; accepted 12 February 2006.

Cardiac diverticula are rare and may have a wide spectrum of presentation ranging from an acute rupture and life threatening arrhythmias to being completely asymptomatic. The treatment options may vary but in view of their life threatening potential, the consensus is towards treating them early when the diagnosis was made.

We present a case of an infant who presented in an emergency with cardiac arrest and was ultimately treated successfully on cardiopulmonary bypass and made an uneventful recovery. The literature has also been discussed on left ventricular diverticulum.

Keywords: Congenital, Left ventricular diverticulum, Surgery

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PII: S1443-9506(06)00042-4

doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2006.02.013

Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 272-274, August 2006

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