Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is a rare disorder. It is usually congenital, but other origins have been described. It may be asymptomatic, or it may present as angina or with symptoms of valvular insufficiency or outflow obstruction. Once ruptured, it often produces hemodynamic instability. Diagnosis should be pursued with transesophageal echocardiography or catheterization. A 50-year-old man was ...

A patient with aneurysm of the body of the left atrium presenting with angina pectoris and mild congestive heart failure, but completely normal coronary arteriograms, is reported. A deverticulum seen in the left ventricular angiogram, read as a ventricular diverticulum, was found at surgery to be an aneurysm of the body of the left atrium. The possible etiologics and complications of the left a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and discuss etiopathology, clinical manifestations and surgical outcome of a rare subset of unruptured aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva which erodes into the interventricular septum. METHODS Between 1989 and 1995, seven cases of unruptured aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva eroding into the interventricular septum underwent surgical correction at the King Edward VII Memo...

We have studied 33 patients with a large ventricular aneurysm complicating an anterior myocardial infarction. The features of myocardial infarction progressing towards an aneurysm were no previous history of coronary disease, severe infarction as shown by the severity of pain and the presence of pericardial rub and heart failure, and large increase in serum levels of cardiac enzymes. A large an...

Non-atherosclerotic isolated coronary artery aneurysm is not common. Two cases of non-atherosclerotic isolated coronary artery aneurysm, with similar presentations but diVerent management strategies were presented. The patients were well four and six years later, respectively. The definition, incidence, causes, presentation, complications, investigations, management, and prognosis of coronary a...

Aortic aneurysm in infancy is very rare. Excluding examples of aneurysm of the ductus arteriosus in the newborn, we have been able to find only three previously reported cases, all of which were associated with congenital heart disease (Traisman and Johnson, 1953; Hartwell and Ewing, 1954; Rainey and Gilbert, 1958). This appears to be the first recorded case of aortic aneurysm occurring in infa...

Background Submitral left ventricular aneurysm is a rarely reported cardiac abnormality that is encountered commonly among blacks. So far, only one case has been reported from Ethiopia and East Africa.Our aim is to report an interesting and rare case that we encountered at St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College. Methods In April 2017, a 25-year-old patient havingsubmitral left ventric...

We report the case of a 43-year-old man who underwent endovascular treatment for posterior inferior cerebellar aneurysm. Significant hemodynamic changes were observed as electric stimulation was applied during coil detachment for a PICA aneurysm. We postulate that changes in heart rate and blood pressure during coil detachment were due to the electric stimulation of the tonic vasomotor center l...

A 63-year-old man presented with acute congestive heart failure and was found to have a continuous murmur. Two years earlier, he had an inferior myocardial infarct, when no murmurs were heard. Angiography showed a right coronary artery aneurysm communicating with the right atrium. The distal vessel was occluded. The aneurysm was resected and the patient remains well. It is proposed that this wa...