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Acute mitral regurgitation following giant coronary artery aneurysm resection: a case report [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Giant coronary artery aneurysms carry a high risk of rupture, thrombosis, and distal embolization. When percutaneous coronary intervention is not feasible in symptomatic cases, surgical resection combined with coronary artery bypass grafting ...
Akihito Arai, Satoshi Kometani, Kenichiro Takahashi, Akane Kobashi, Ryo Izubuchi, Manato Saito, Minako Hayakawa, Mimiko Tabata   +7 more
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Giant 8-cm coronary artery aneurysm: Surgical managementCentral MessagePerspective [PDF]

JTCVS Techniques
We present the case of a 75-year-old man presenting asymptomatically with a large 8-cm right coronary artery aneurysm. The right coronary artery aneurysm was identified by cardiac catheterization and managed through coronary artery bypass grafting.
Alexandra Murillo-Solera, MD, Vaishnavi Karanam, MS, Ryan Azarrafiy, MD, Iverson E. Williams, BS, Oscar Holmvard, MD, Muhammad F. Umar, MD, Thomas M. Beaver, MD, MPH   +6 more
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Closure of giant coronary artery aneurysm with graft stent: a case report [PDF]

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Background The presence of coronary aneurysm or ectasia has been associated with poor long-term outcomes, regardless of the presence of concomitant atherosclerotic coronary artery disease.
Sevil Gülaşti, Berk Mutlu, Göksel Tuzcu, Cemil Zencır   +3 more
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Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography as a Method for Diagnosing a Thrombotic Occlusion of a Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm in a Patient with Difficulty in Visualizing the Right Coronary Artery During Invasive Coronary Angiography [PDF]

Diagnostics
Giant coronary artery aneurysms, defined as those with a diameter exceeding 8 mm or a four-fold increase relative to the reference vessel segment, are incredibly rare, with an estimated prevalence of approximately 0.02% in the general population.
Paweł Gać, Natalia Kusyn, Rafał Poręba   +2 more
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Case Report: Not a Mediastinal Mass! a Ruptured Giant Coronary Aneurysm That Occurred in a Young Man

Frontiers in Surgery, 2022
IntroductionCoronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is a localized coronary artery dilatation that exceeds 1. 5 times the diameter of a standard adjacent segment or the largest coronary vessel.
Peng Yao, Cheng Shen, Zhi-Jie Xu, Yi-dan Lin   +3 more
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Newly Diagnosed Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm in an Adult with Recent Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection

Diagnostics, 2022
It is well known that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can affect the vascular endothelium; however, coronary artery aneurysm complicated by COVID-19 in adults has not yet been reported.
Jeong-Hun Shin, Sun Kyun Ro
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Surgical Strategy for Huge Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm Combined with Left Ventricular Fistula

Case Reports in Cardiology, 2021
Coronary artery aneurysms combined with left ventricular fistulas are rare; coronary revascularization strategy after coronary artery aneurysm resection is complex in such cases.
Takafumi Terada, Yoshimori Araki, Akihiro Kobayashi, Osamu Kawaguchi   +3 more
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Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm After Breast Radiation in a Patient With Congenital Coronary Arteriovenous Fistula

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2022
An 84-year-old Hispanic woman with medical history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, breast cancer, and left circumflex coronary artery ectasia with arteriovenous fistula to the coronary sinus was found with a new giant obtuse marginal 1 (OM1 ...
Andrew Engel-Rodriguez, Natalie Engel-Rodriguez, Robert Engel-Rodriguez, Robert Engel-Ramos   +3 more
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Surgical repair for left coronary artery-right atrium fistula with giant coronary aneurysm

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022
Background Coronary artery fistula is a rare coronary anomaly which is defined as a communication between coronary artery and other heart chambers or vascular structures.
Yan Jin, Mengfei Zhang, Juan He
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Giant aneurysm of left circumflex artery branch with fistula to the coronary sinus: a case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022
Background Aneurysm of a coronary artery branch with a fistula is extremely rare. Here, we present a case of giant aneurysm of the left circumflex artery branch with a fistula to the coronary sinus treated successfully with aneurysmectomy.
Yasuyuki Toyoda, Takahiro Takemura, Kazuaki Shiratori, Yoshikazu Yazaki, Takahiro Tachibana, Hirokazu Niitsu, Takashi Kunihara   +6 more
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