REZUMAT GIANT LEFT VENTRICULAR ANEURYSM. CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC STUDY Adina Ionac1, Cristian Mornos1, Georgiana S. Ionescu1, Horea Feier2, Marian Gaspar2, Milovan Slovenski2, Irina Popescu1, Dragos Cozma1, Vlad A. Ionescu2, Stefan I. Dragulescu1 Left ventricular (LV) aneurysms have as the main cause of formation, in up to 95% of the cases, the coronary artery disease: the ST myocardial infa...

A twelve year old girl, an established case of systemic lupus erythematosus, was referred to us suffering from diplopia and nasal speech for a period of 3 months. Neurological examination was conducted which revealed a right-sided sixth nerve palsy and a pulsatile nasopharyngeal mass. Neurodiagnostic imaging studies confirmed a giant intracavernous internal carotid aneurysm. The malady of t...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease (KD) causes coronary artery disease (CAD) in children. In addition, a history of KD is suspected to be a risk factor for the development of atherosclerotic heart disease in the future. Histological senescence changes are a common denominator in atherosclerotic lesions in adults, so the present study investigated whether histological senescence changes had already occ...

A 29-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with nonspecific chest pain and dyspnea. Physical examination revealed systolic murmur. Laboratory findings were unremarkable. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a cystic mass adjacent to the right atrium and ascending aorta that was believed to be a large aneurysm of right coronary artery (RCA). Coronary computed tomography angiography (CT...

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OBJECTIVE To underscore how challenging the treatment of a coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) can be and highlight the need for consensus guidelines based on focused registries. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 58-year-old man presented with acute coronary syndrome and underwent elective stent placement on a right CAA. The procedure was complicated by inferior acute myocardial infarction;...

Two cases of atypical Kawasaki disease (KD) manifested as persistent lobar lung consolidation, prolonged fever, and active inflammatory laboratory markers unresponsive to antibiotic treatment are reported. One of the children developed a giant coronary aneurysm. Atypical KD should be considered in the differential diagnosis of young children with prolonged fever and lobar consolidation unrespon...