An atherosclerotic aneurysm of the right coronary artery complicated by a recent myocardial infarction was successfully treated with coronary artery stenting, using a device consisting of 2 stents with a layer of expandable polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) placed between them. A follow-up angiograph 5 months after the procedure showed sustained initial results.

It is well known that patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) often have concomitant coronary artery disease (CAD). In cases of AAA with severe CAD requiring coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), two therapeutic strategies regarding the timing of CABG can be considered: staged or simultaneous operations. However, the ideal treatment of patients with large AAA and critical CAD remains co...

A 37 year old man presenting with acute heart failure, hypotension, and acute renal failure was diagnosed by cardiac catheterisation and angiography to have the rare combination of congenital aneurysm of the non-coronary sinus of Valsalva rupturing into the right ventricle, and an anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the main pulmonary artery. The diagnosis could not be confirmed ...

A 51 years male presented with acute left ventricular failure and was diagnosed to have pseudo-aneurysm of left ventricle, coronary artery disease with diffuse ectasia of coronary arteries.

Whereas coronary artery fistulas (CAF) are the most frequent congenital anomalies influencing hemodynamic parameters of coronary arteries, bilateral coronary-pulmonary artery fistula (CPAF) complicated by a large saccular aneurysm is relatively rare. The optimal treatment of symptomatic patients with CPAF and aneurysm still remains a challenging problem and has been usually considered as an ind...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The influence of coronary artery revascularization on the control of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with chronic myocardial infarction is uncertain. However, ablation of the arrhythmogenic circuit in these patients by aneurysm resection is useful for controlling ventricular arrhythmias. We made a prospective analysis of our clinical strategy in patients who were...

The patient was a 67-year-old man who had undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery using a saphenous vein graft (SVG) 22 years before. Computed tomography angiogram revealed a large aneurysm of the SVG (38 × 42 mm in diameter; 80-mm long) and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery (LAD). We first performed percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion of t...

Giant coronary artery aneurysms are a rare and potentially life-threatening condition. A 47 year old male presented with a progressive 6 month history of dyspnea and acute right sided chest pain. During the patients work-up, a 10 cm × 10 cm right coronary artery aneurysm was discovered on CT scan and confirmed by cardiac catheterization. The patient was emergently taken to the operating room fo...