management

Last reviewed 01/2018

Patients with a left ventricular aneurysm should be anticoagulated because of the increased risk of systemic embolisation.

Indications for surgical aneurysmectomy include:

  • congestive heart failure
  • angina pectoris
  • recurrent ventricular tachyarrhythmias
  • systemic emboli

Patients undergoing resection of an aneurysm may also require coronary revascularization.