[Suspected Left Ventricular Pseudo-false Aneurysm of a Huge Size Combined with Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia;Report of a Case].

A 74-year-old man was transferred to our hospital for heart failure and ventricular tachycardia. Left ventricular aneurysm of a huge size( 6×9 cm) was found on the imaging test, and was suspected to be a pseudo-false aneurysm because of its thick wall with small orifice. Occulusion of the right coronary artery (#1) was revealed by coronary arteriography and the diskinetic aneurysm in the inferior wall was revealed by left ventriculography.

[A case of thymic cyst differentiated from cardiac cyst with immunostaining].

This is a case of a 70-year-old woman with thymic cyst which was found by chance on admission for treatment of acute bronchial asthma and diagnosed by pathological examination. After remission of the asthma she was asymptomatic and no pathological physical findings were found except of cervical thyroid tumor of adenomatous goiter. Chest X-ray films revealed a large mediastinal mass with a sharp margin at the right cardiophrenic angle.