Table 1.

Overview of published case reports of a left ventricular pseudo aneurysm after purulent peri/pancarditis

Study (Year of publication), [ref]	Age (years)	Sex	Location pseudoaneurysm	Diagnostic methods	Micro-organism	initial presentation	Outcome
Sadan et al. (1981) [1]	6	F	Left ventricular posterior wall	Left ventriculogram	Staph. Aureus	Femoral osteomyelitis	Survived
Wiegers et al. (1988) [2]	28	F	Left ventricular postero-medial wall	Echocardiogram Left ventriculography	Staph. Aureus	Intravenous drug abuser/bacteremia	Died
Roberts et al. (1991) [3]	33	F	Left ventricular posterior wall	Magnetic Resonance Imaging Echocardiogram Left ventriculography	Staph. Aureus	Intravenous drug abuser/pericarditis	Not reported
Campos et al. (1996) [4]	8	M	Left ventricular posterior wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomographic Scanning Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Staph. Aureus	Femoral osteomyelitis	Survived
de Boer et al. (1999) [5]	2	F	Left ventricular wall	Echocardiogram	Staph. Aureus	Chicken pox/bacteremia	Survived
Moraes et al. (1999) [6]	4	F	Left ventricular posterolateral wall	Echocardiogram Left ventriculogram	Staph. Aureus	Pneumonia and subsequent septic arthritis	Survived
Osula et al. (2001) [7]	33	F	Left ventricular free wall (apical)	Echocardiogram Left ventricular angiogram	Staph. Aureus	Intravenous drug abuser/bacteremia	Survived
Deng et al. (2003) [8]	13	F	Left ventricular lateral wall	Echocardiogram	Staph. Aureus	Pneumonia	Survived
Yamabi et al. (2004) [9]	35	M	Left ventricular posterior wall	Echocardiogram Left ventricular angiogram	Staph. Aureus	Sepsis	Survived
Arifi et al. (2004) [10]	20	F	Left ventricular wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomographic Scanning	Staph. Aureus	Sepsis/endocarditis mitral valve	Survived
Vijayvergiya et al. (2008) [11]	52	M	Left ventricular anterolateral wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography	Streptococcus viridans	Pyopericardium/empyema	Died
Chen et al. (2010) [12]	79	F	Posterior wall of the left ventricle	Computed Tomography Echocardiogram	Staph. Aureus	Bacteremia/pericarditis	Survived
Wei et al. (2014) [13]	18	M	Left ventricular posterolateral wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomographic Scanning	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Dyspnea low grade fever.	Died
Nair et al. (2014) [14]	6	M	Left ventricular posterolateral wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography	MRSA Acinetobacter species	Sepsis	Survived
Desai et al. (2015) [15]	2	F	Left ventricular lateral wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography	No growth of organisms	Intermittent fever	Survived
Krishna et al. (2015) [16]	1.5	F	Left ventricle below posterior mitral leaflet	Trans esophageal echocardiography	Staph. Aureus	Fever/pericarditis	Survived
Lindblom et al. (2015) [17]	48	M	Left ventricular posteroinferior wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomography	No growth of organisms	Fever/pericarditis	Survived
Sunkara et al. (2015) [18]	48	M	Left ventricular basal infero-lateral wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Angiography	Streptococcus Viridans	Pericarditis	Died
Arora et al. (2015) [19]	6	M	Left ventricular inferior septal wall	Echocardiogram	MRSA	Sepsis/arthritis	Survived
Yeh et al. (2016) [20]	46	M	Left ventricular antero-lateral wall	Computed Tomography Cardiac catheterization	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Fever/Pericarditis	Survived
Sreevathsa et al. (2018) [21]	9	M	Left ventricular posteroinferior wall	Echocardiogram Computed Tomography Left ventricular angiography	Mycobacterium Tuberculosis	Retrosternal chest pain/palpitations	Survived
Sreevathsa et al. (2018) [21]	3	F	Posterior wall of the left ventricle	Not reported	Possible Mycobacterium Tuberculosis	Tibial osteomyelitis	Not reported
Sreevathsa et al. (2018) [21]	6	F	Left ventricular posterolateral wall	Echocardiogram	Possible Varicella Zoster	Varicella zoster infection	Died

F Female, M Male, Staph. Aureus Staphylococcus Aureus, MRSA Multi resistant Staphylococcus Aureus