Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Ventricular Aneurysm- Cause of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young: A Case Report

  • Author:
  • Rajeevan K.1, Renju Raveendran2
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 206 to 208

1Professor of Pathology, Govt. TD Medical College, Alleppey

2Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine, Govt. TD Medical College, Alleppey

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

This report highlights rupture of ventricular aneurysm as one of the rare causes of sudden cardiac death in the young. The victim was otherwise healthy and not known to have coronary artery disease. The lesion must have been present since early childhood as presumable from its morphology, and hence most probably a developmental cardiac anomaly.