ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of a fifty-three year old man, was well except for mild systemic hypertension until November 1960. In February 1963 atrial fibrillation developed, and one month later the patient experienced transient loss of consciousness, aphasia and right hemiparesis. In August 1964 severe exertional and nocturnal dyspnea appeared and progressed rapidly. The clinical and pathologic findings in a fifty-three year old man who died following resection of a false aneurysm of the left ventricle are described herein. Following an acute myocardial infarction, the wall of the heart ruptured, but massive hemopericardium did not occur since the extravasated blood was confined by adherent parietal pericardium. “The word aneurysm means dilatation and in the early days of morbid anatomy it was applied to that state of the heart which is now simply called dilatation.
