A case of intravital diagnosis of a heart aneurysm

Despite the comparatively rich sectional material, which has been sufficiently studied pathoanatomically, the intravital diagnosis of an aneurysm of the heart itself is still rarely described. Pletnev., Who collected 300 published cases, found only eight (of them 4 of his own), where the diagnosis of heart aneurysm was made during his lifetime .. In the subsequent literature there is also a report by Laird M., Morris, Sabot about heart aneurysms, clinically, however, not recognized and being only random sectional finds. Jaksch-Wartenhorst in 1928 published his 2nd case of intravital diagnosis based mainly on the X-ray picture of the disease. Dr. Ivanov in 1929 also reported two cases diagnosed by him as an aneurysm of the heart, of which one was not confirmed by autopsy, and in the second case, instead of the suspected aneurysm of the right ventricle, an aneurysm of the interventricular septum was found at autopsy.