High flow EC–IC bypass for a giant left MCA aneurysm

Giant cavernous carotid aneurysm causing pituitary dysfunction: Pituitary function recovery with high-flow bypass

BACKGROUND Giant internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysms extending into the sellar region, mimicking pituitary tumors, and causing pituitary dysfunction are relatively rare. Open surgery or endovascular treatment can treat these aneurysms, but achieving recovery of endocrine function is difficult. CASE DESCRIPTION A 56-year-old man presented with giant aneurysm of the ICA causing pituitary im...

Giant left atrial appendage aneurysm.

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Surgical treatment of a giant unruptured left sinus of Valsava aneurysm requiring coronary artery bypass grafting

The present article describes a case involving a 74-year-old woman who presented with atypical chest pain and was found to have a giant aneurysm of the left sinus of Valsalva. Computed tomography coronary angiography performed before surgery showed a left main stem arising from the superior aspect of the left coronary sinus (stretched superiorly over, but not within, the aneurysm sac). The pati...

Giant left ventricular aneurysm after myocardial infarction.

a Cardiac Surgery Department, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain b Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital ‘‘Marqués de Valdecilla’’, Santander, Spain c Internal Medicine Department, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington DC , United States d Cardiovascular Surgery Department, University Hospital ‘‘Marqués de Valdecilla’’, Santander, Spain e Radiol...

Giant left anterior descending artery aneurysm.