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Left Main Coronary Artery Diverticulum: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Coronary artery disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and while most commonly is atherosclerotic, it can present with variable manifestations, both congenital and acquired. One such manifestation is coronary aneurysm, which is a localized dilatation of a coronary artery wall segment t...

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Autores principales: Tahir, Hassan, Kennedy, Timothy, Awan, M. Umer, Omar, Bassam, Malozzi, Christopher, Awan, G. Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29904458
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr714w
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author Tahir, Hassan
Kennedy, Timothy
Awan, M. Umer
Omar, Bassam
Malozzi, Christopher
Awan, G. Mustafa
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description Coronary artery disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and while most commonly is atherosclerotic, it can present with variable manifestations, both congenital and acquired. One such manifestation is coronary aneurysm, which is a localized dilatation of a coronary artery wall segment to greater than 1.5 times the adjacent normal segments. While a dilated outpouching of a coronary artery has been commonly classified as a coronary aneurysm, a non-dilated outpouching is rare and is referred to as a diverticulum, with only one previous case report in the literature. It is conceivable that other cases of coronary artery diverticulum may have been previously reported as an aneurysm, given the overlapping angiographic appearance. We present a case of a 72-year-old female patient with an incidental finding of left main coronary artery diverticulum on diagnostic coronary angiogram done for preoperative liver transplantation evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-59974412018-06-14 Left Main Coronary Artery Diverticulum: Case Report and Review of the Literature Tahir, Hassan Kennedy, Timothy Awan, M. Umer Omar, Bassam Malozzi, Christopher Awan, G. Mustafa Cardiol Res Case Report Coronary artery disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and while most commonly is atherosclerotic, it can present with variable manifestations, both congenital and acquired. One such manifestation is coronary aneurysm, which is a localized dilatation of a coronary artery wall segment to greater than 1.5 times the adjacent normal segments. While a dilated outpouching of a coronary artery has been commonly classified as a coronary aneurysm, a non-dilated outpouching is rare and is referred to as a diverticulum, with only one previous case report in the literature. It is conceivable that other cases of coronary artery diverticulum may have been previously reported as an aneurysm, given the overlapping angiographic appearance. We present a case of a 72-year-old female patient with an incidental finding of left main coronary artery diverticulum on diagnostic coronary angiogram done for preoperative liver transplantation evaluation. Elmer Press 2018-06 2018-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5997441/ /pubmed/29904458 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr714w Text en Copyright 2018, Tahir et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29904458
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