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...

A43-year-old man, previously fit and well, was admitted with an anterior myocardial infarct treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. Five days later, he underwent coronary angiography, which demonstrated a proximal aneurysm of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) (Figure 1), with a severe stenosis immediately distal to the aneurysm (Figure 2) and right coronary arter...

Coronary artery disease is extremely rare in patients with Behçet's disease. We report the case of a patient with a history of Behçet's disease who was admitted in our hospital with instable angina pectoris. The patient's electrocardiogram was normal. Coronary angiography revealed aneurysm of the distal right coronary artery with a tight stenosis of the proximal part of the posterolateral branc...

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...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the results of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) with X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) in a pediatric population. BACKGROUND Coronary artery abnormalities in Kawasaki disease (KD) develop in about 15% to 25% of young patients, mostly in the form of aneurysms. METHODS Thirteen patients (12 male), age three to eight years, were studied. T...

background: whether coronary artery ectasia (cae) is a unique clinical finding or results from other clinical entities is still unknown. we aimed to determine the cae prevalence, investigate the relationship between cae and patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics, and assess the prognosis at follow-up in a sample of iranian population. methods: t otally, 10057 patients who underwent ...

PATIENT Male, 74 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) Symptoms: Palpable abdominal mass Medication: - Clinical Procedure: Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair Specialty: Surgery. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease is common in elderly patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. Here we report a case of the combination of surgical repair for abdominal aortic ane...

traumatic coronary artery-cameral fistulas (tcaf) are rare and may present secondary to penetrating injuries (80%) or iatrogenic traumas. early operative intervention remains the recommended treatment modality for accidental traumatic coronary artery fistulas. we report the case of a 17-year-old man who presented with left anterior descending coronary artery-right ventricle fistula following pe...

results the mean ages in case and control groups were 60.8 ± 6.8 and 57.5 ± 11.5 years, respectively, with no significant difference (p = 0.09). thirty patients (54.5%) in case and 32 (58.2%) in control groups were male with no significant difference (p = 0.7). cmv-dna was present in 8 (14.5%) of the cases and 2 (4%) of the controls. cmv-dna was associated with higher risk of atherosclerosis (o...