Cardiac Aneurysm

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Abstract
PRIOR to 1931, the diagnosis of acquired aneurysm of the left ventricle was made only ten times ante mortem.1 , 2 With the better appreciation of the significance of the clinical features of this condition and the increased use of modern diagnostic facilities, more and more cases have been reported in the literature, and a new evaluation of the prognosis is warranted. Thus, although in Parkinson, Bedford, and Thomson's3 cases, the longest survival was thirty months, in Dressier and Pfeiffer's4 cases it was seven years. Young and Schwedel5 have reported the case of a patient who survived for ten years after the . . .