Publication: Left Ventricular Aneurysm: Sudden Unexpected Deaths in a 29-Year-Old Man
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2018-05-01
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15564029
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00221198
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Mahidol University
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Journal of Forensic Sciences. Vol.63, No.3 (2018), 942-944
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Supawon Srettabunjong Left Ventricular Aneurysm: Sudden Unexpected Deaths in a 29-Year-Old Man. Journal of Forensic Sciences. Vol.63, No.3 (2018), 942-944. doi:10.1111/1556-4029.13605 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/45177
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Left Ventricular Aneurysm: Sudden Unexpected Deaths in a 29-Year-Old Man
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© 2017 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) is an abnormal dilated heart structure, either congenital or acquired. LVA is a rare cardiac condition with no symptoms in most cases, thus occasionally diagnosed during investigations of other diseases. Its association with certain cardiac complications and sudden cardiac deaths has been reported. However, its role as a cause of sudden unexpected death is rare. The author reported a sudden cardiac death in a 29-year-old man with LVA. Without a significant coronary artery disease and known etiologies of LVA, such an abnormal heart structure in the present case was considered congenital LVA. As no other possible mechanisms of death could be identified other than LVA with its associated pathologic lesions, mural thrombi, and dilated cardiomegaly, his death was attributable to fatal cardiac arrhythmia (most commonly ventricular tachycardia) secondary to LVA.