Digital 3D image reconstruction of ventriculocapillary communication as revealed in one case after transmyocardial laser revascularization.

TMR (Transmyocardial Laserrevascularization) was performed on the partially dyskinetic left ventricular anterior wall with stenotic coronary blood supply in a 61 year old woman with a history of angina and myocardial infarction. As an ischemic aneurysm developed in the anteroapical region of the TMR treated area, it became clear that TMR did not provide a substitute for coronary blood supply in this very heart region. The aneurysm was removed surgically 7 months after TMR and showed histopathologic features of an acute aneurysm.