Nonsurgical Management of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm

Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare dilations of arterial segments. These aneurysms are mostly caused by atherosclerosis. Due to the rarity of this condition, there are no official guidelines for its management; therefore, management is mainly based on case reports. We present a patient with a...

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Autores principales: Wessly, Priscilla, Soherwardi, Shahabuddin, Allen, Norman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28944117
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1478
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description Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare dilations of arterial segments. These aneurysms are mostly caused by atherosclerosis. Due to the rarity of this condition, there are no official guidelines for its management; therefore, management is mainly based on case reports. We present a patient with a giant CAA in the left anterior descending artery who was treated medically. At 12-month follow-up,  he was asymptomatic and had no complications.  
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spelling pubmed-56023752017-09-22 Nonsurgical Management of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm Wessly, Priscilla Soherwardi, Shahabuddin Allen, Norman Cureus Radiology Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare dilations of arterial segments. These aneurysms are mostly caused by atherosclerosis. Due to the rarity of this condition, there are no official guidelines for its management; therefore, management is mainly based on case reports. We present a patient with a giant CAA in the left anterior descending artery who was treated medically. At 12-month follow-up,  he was asymptomatic and had no complications.   Cureus 2017-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5602375/ /pubmed/28944117 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1478 Text en Copyright © 2017, Wessly et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5602375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28944117
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1478
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