Coronary artery aneurysm is a rare anomaly and is defined as the expansion of the diameters of normal coronary arteries by ≥1.5 times. Aneurysms reaching 4 times the normal size or 8 mm in diameter are defined as giant coronary aneurysms. Giant aneurysms involved in all of the left main coronary artery (LMCA), left anterior descending artery (LAD), and right coronary artery (RCA) are very rare....

[email protected] Introduction Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is defined as a focal or diffuse dilatation of a coronary artery, greater than 1.5 times the diameter of normal adjacent segments. And the Committee of the American Heart Association has defined giant aneurysms as those >8 mm [1,2]. The incidence giant coronary artery aneurysm is hard to be determined, because few studies hav...

Giant coronary artery aneurysm with a fistula is a rare condition. The presence of a giant aneurysm imposes considerable health risks. We report a case of a 67-year-old woman who presented with frequent ventricular premature contractions caused by a giant coronary aneurysm arising from a branch of the left anterior descending coronary artery that had a fistulous connection to the pulmonary arte...

Abstract Coronary involvement in Kawasaki disease is not uncommon; however, giant coronary aneurysm exceeding 50 mm extremely rare. In this article, we presented a case of involving right artery with associated asymptomatic myocardial ischemia as evident by multimodality imaging.

The aim of this study was to determine risk factors for coronary lesions, the type of heart lesion present, and long-term outcome in Kawasaki disease. We studied 150 children, aged 3 months to 9.5 years, who met the criteria for a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. Of the 18% who were diagnosed with heart disease, 100% had coronary artery abnormalities, 11.1% had pancarditis, and 3.7%, mitral insuf...

The giant coronary artery aneurysm combined with coronary artery fistula is extremely uncommon. In our case, there was a giant aneurysm of the left main coronary artery with fistulous communication to the right atrium, combined with moderate aortic valve regurgitation, which was initially found by transthoracic echocardiogram and subsequently confirmed by the 256-slice multidetector computer to...

Giant coronary artery aneurysm is rare. A 71-year-old female was referred to our hospital 3 months after onset of symptoms. Work-up including coronary angiogram and computed tomographic angiogram helped a definite diagnosis of a giant aneurysm of the circumflex coronary artery. The patient was conservatively managed with a close follow-up. In this article, this rare lesion was presented with as...

Coronary artery aneurysm is a rare clinical entity encountered incidentally 0.3-5% among patients who undergo coronary angiography. Even giant coronary artery aneurysm is much rarer with an incidence of 0.02% among all atherosclerotic cases. Due to rare occurrence and lack of controlled trials, clinical presentation, prognosis and management of giant coronary artery aneurysm are under controver...

AIM To investigate the clinical features and surgical management of giant coronary artery aneurysm during end-stage Kawasaki disease. METHODS From May 2006 to October 2007, 5 patients, 2 to 57 years old, presented with giant coronary artery aneurysm and underwent surgical correction. The coronary aneurysm diameters were 1.5 to 2.5 cm. The coronary aneurysm lesion sites included the right main...

INTRODUCTION Giant coronary artery aneurysm is an extremely rare form of coronary artery disease. The most common cause of coronary artery aneurysms is atherosclerosis. Although it is usually asymptomatic, it may have various clinical presentations, including angina, myocardial infarction or sudden death. CASE PRESENTATION A 32-year-old woman presented with edema of the upper and lower limbs,...