Coronary artery aneurysms are noted in 0.15% to 4.9% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Atherosclerosis accounts for 50% of coronary aneurysms in adults. We report a 64-year-old female with a huge right coronary artery aneurysm with fistula connecting the aneurysm with the pulmonary artery and a fistula connecting the proximal left anterior descending artery with the pulmonary artery....

Aneurysms of the left main coronary artery are exceedingly rare clinical entities, encountered incidentally in approximately 0.1% of patients who undergo routine angiography. The most common cause of coronary artery aneurysms is atherosclerosis. Angiography is the gold standard for diagnosis and treatment. Depending on the severity of the coexisting coronary stenosis, patients with left main co...

The diagnosis of coronary aneurysms has already been described using transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. In the present report we demonstrated the use of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for the diagnosis of a large left circumflex coronary aneurysm. The improved spatial resolution of this new imaging technique provided valuable information for anatomic characterizat...

introduction aortic surgery has made much progress recently. yet the combination of aortic surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting has remained a major issue for the surgeons. patient and observation herein, we present a case of severe aortic insufficiency with aortic aneurysm concomitant with single coronary artery disease on the right coronary artery. the patient underwent bentall procedu...

To ascertain whether exercise testing might predict multivessel coronary disease and left ventricular aneurysm after a myocardial infarction, 154 patients with a single documented myocardial infarction who had both exercise testing and coronary angiography were grouped according to whether they had greater than or equal to 1 mm ST depression, greater than or equal to 1 mm ST elevation, or neith...

A 67-year-old man presented with left-sided chest discomfort to our department. His medical history was unremarkable. The physical examination revealed a continuous murmur at the left mid-sternal border. ECG imaging and cardiac enzymes were normal. The echocardiography revealed no wall motion abnormality. Coronary computed tomography (CT) angiography was performed to evaluate the coronary arter...

Coronary artery aneurysms are rare anomalies that are usually incidental findings in coronary angiography. We present the case of a 64-year-old male patient with a recent episode of epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting, accompanied by electrocardiographic alterations and positive troponin I. As the symptoms persisted, the patient was referred for coronary angiography, during which a significant...

background: the existing evidence suggests that plasma adiponectin concentrations can be indicative of the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (cad). however, the results of the studies conducted hitherto on this subject are inconsistent. we sought to investigate the possible correlation between plasma adiponectin levels and the presence and severity of cad in patients undergoing n...

background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is frequent and in some degree it affects about 24% of male and 9% of female in middle age adults. this study aimed to assess the association between risk of osa and cad. materials and methods : this case-control study was performed among 184 patients with a history of coro- nary angiography in two catheter labs at hospitals in qom, iran. ...

background: coronary angiography, albeit a safe procedure, may cause serious complications especially in patients with left main stenosis (lms). this study was designed to investigate the efficacy of workload achieved by exercise tolerance test (ett) in predicting lms in candidates for coronary angiography. methods: a total of 743 patients with a positive ett who subsequently underwent cardiac ...