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Surgical Medicine Open Access Journal

Complicated Tubercular Pericarditis Presenting as Ventricular Apical Aneurysm

  • Open or Close Sonali Sethi1* and SatyajitGodhi2*

    1Department of Radiology, Prima Diagnostics, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    2Consultant Surgical Gastroenterology, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    *Corresponding author: Sonali Sethi, Consultant Radiologist, Prima Diagnostics, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    *Corresponding author: Satyajit Godhi, Consultant Surgical Gastroenterology, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Submission: December 05, 2017; Published: December 15, 2017

DOI: 10.31031/SMOAJ.2017.01.000504

ISSN: 2578-0379
Volume1 Issue1

Abstract

A 25 year old female presented with features of right heart failure. She was treated for pulmonary tuberculosis in the past and completed treatment four years back. Contrast enhanced CT scan of the thorax was performed which revealed chronic calcific peri-carditis with a narrow necked left ventricular apical free wall aneurysm (Figure 1a & 1b).

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