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...

RATIONALE Coronary artery aneurysms and fistulas are not rare conditions in clinical practice, but bilateral fistulas with a giant coronary aneurysm in just one person are quite rare. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a case of a 66-year-old woman with these 2 coronary abnormalities accompanied with a huge mediastinum mass. INTERVENTIONS The giant aneurysm was ligated and the mass was resected whi...

Dr. Rainer points out the difficulty in distinguishing poststenotic dilatation from coronary arterial aneurysm. When we first became interested in this problem, we reviewed the literature and talked to other angiographers about the criteria to be used. It became clear that coronary arterial aneurysms are easy to idenhfy if there is no associated coronary atherosclerosis. In the face of coronary...

Coronary artery aneurysm or ectasia was reported in approximately 15% to 25% of the affected children, particularly in the proximal end of the main blood vessel and the left anterior descending part. Rare patients have been reported with aneurysm in the distal end of the right coronary artery. In this case report, we present a rare case with aneurysm in the distal end of the right coronary arte...

A 68-year-old woman exhibited an increasingly protruding mass on the left heart border on chest X-ray. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed an echo-free mass in the anterior pericardial space. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed blood flow from the proximal left anterior descending coronary into a large coronary artery aneurysm measuring 61 mm × 51 mm in diameter and a quadricuspid aor...

t case is presented of congenital aneurysm of a coronary artery in a patient wiith angim pectoris and myoeardial infarction. Etiologies other than coronary atheroselerosis should bo considered in young patients with clinical coronary disease; they include syphilitic ostial stenosis, coronary embolization, pulmonary origimn of a coroiary artery, and necrotizing arteritis in addition to aneurysm ...

background and aim: kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute childhood febrile illness with world­wide incidence and the highest incidence occurs in asian children, with coronary arteritis being the main complication. sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) has also been described as a comp­lication of kd in several articles. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of snhl in patients with kd t...

[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...

Left ventricular aneurysm is a very rare finding in the African and it is the purpose of this paper to describe four such cases, including one following coronary thrombosis. Sternberg (1914) has shown that 85 per cent of cardiac aneurysms in white patients follow on myocardial infarction. A different picture is presented in the African. In a series of fifteen African patients with left ventricu...

Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) formation is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening event after coronary balloon angioplasty or stent implantation. In this report, we present a case of a patient who had a cockscomb-like aneurysm after bare metal stent implantation which was successfully treated with a coronary graft stent.