azygos vein aneurysm is a rare cause of a posterior or paratracheal mediastinal mass. trauma or conditions causing elevated flow or pressure in the azygos system, such as cardiac failure or cirrhosis of the liver are secondary causes of aneurysm of the azygos vein. we report a case of asymptomatic saccular aneurysm of the azygos vein in a 45-year-old man with blunt minor chest trauma. the azygos...

t rue saccular aneurysm is exceptional in coarctation of aorta in children. a 6-year-old girl with headache and systemic arterial hypertension referred to our center for cardiovascular evaluation. physical examination revealed high blood pressure and weak lower extremity pulses. two-dimensional and doppler echocardiography and angiography demonstrated a saccular aneurysm of the descending aorta...

bicuspid aortic valve is traditionally considered an innocuous congenital anomaly. due to a better and widespread availability of non-invasive imaging techniques, it has come to the fore that 30% of these cases develop complications, viz., valve abnormality (aortic regurgitation and stenosis), and aneurysm of aortic root and ascending aorta. sinus of valsalva aneurysm is an uncommon complicatio...

A 40 year old male, a known case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, was admitted for catheterization. At catheterization and angiography, septum was hypertrophied to about 5cm and diffuse coronary artery aneurysm was revealed. We found no previous report of coronary artery aneurysm in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

vein of galen aneurysmal malformation (vgam) is a rare congenital malformation, accounting for less than 1% of cerebrovascular abnormalities. the majority of reported cases have been associated with congestive heart failure (chf) in the neonatal period. herein, we present a case of vgam, diagnosed at 37 weeks of gestation during the intrauterine life case report: a full-term female newborn pres...

a ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm rarely accompanies the aortic and tricuspid valve endocarditis. a 36-year-old woman presented with low-threshold dyspnea on exertion and fever. transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography showed a ruptured noncoronary sinus of valsalva aneurysm with large vegetations on the tricuspid and aortic valves, resulting in moderately severe tricuspid regurgi...

celiac artery aneurysm is a rare visceral aneurysm, comparising only 4 % of them. in this article, an innovative surgical method is presented for the treatment o f such aneurysms. a 53 year old female referred to our center with epigastric pain and a mass in the region, which was diagnosed as a case of celiac artery aneurysm by using different imaging techniques. during the operation, according...