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An Extremely Large Coronary Aneurysm Associated with a Quadricuspid Aortic Valve in an Adult Patient

Authors :
Hiroya Matsumura
Kenji Okada
Hiroki Kinoshita
Norimasa Mitsui
Hidekazu Hirao
Hironori Ueda
Shunsuke Tomomori
Kazuyoshi Suenari
Yuichiro Watari
Mitsunori Okamoto
Makoto Munemori
Yukihiro Fukuda
Mirai Kinoshita
Makoto Hamaishi
Source :
Internal Medicine. 52:237-241
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, 2013.

Abstract

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 aortic valve with a small cusp between the left and right coronary cusps. Coronary angiography demonstrated the presence of a coronary aneurysm connected to the proximal left coronary anterior descending artery. A giant coronary artery aneurysm and pulmonary artery fistulas extending from the left and right coronary arteries were confirmed by surgeons and successfully treated with surgery.

Details

ISSN :
13497235 and 09182918
Volume :
52
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Internal Medicine
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9fb43a97881266d0f4e921a6d98fec0f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.52.8461