Case Report: A Rare Case of a Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm |
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Authors: | Walid K Abu Saleh Odeaa Aljabbari Michael J Reardon |
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Institution: | Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas |
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Abstract: | We report the case of a 34-year-old female patient with a giant thrombus-filled aneurysm of the right coronary artery presenting as a spherical cardiac mass on echocardiography. The cardiac mass was found to be an 8-cm right coronary artery aneurysm on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, which also revealed a 3.5-cm proximal left coronary aneurysm and a very small aneurysm at the origin of the obtuse marginal coronary artery. Due to the extent and size of the right coronary aneurysm, a decision for surgical intervention was made. Resection of the right coronary artery aneurysm with vein graft replacement and a bypass to the left anterior descending followed by subsequent exclusion of the aneurysm was successfully performed. |
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Keywords: | giant coronary artery aneurysm right coronary artery coronary artery bypass |
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