Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm: A Case Report

Coronary artery aneurysms are not very uncommon but 'giant' coronary artery aneurysms are rare, with a reported prevalence of 0.02% to 0.2%. Coronary artery aneurysm may be symptomatic or asymptomatic depending on their size and location but it is very unusual for a giant coronary artery a...

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Autores principales: Saghir, Iqra, Moeen, Zunera, Saghir, Ghanwa, Bangash, Shida, Tariq, Sara, Akter, Shamima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693162
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3609
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author Saghir, Iqra
Moeen, Zunera
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Tariq, Sara
Akter, Shamima
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description Coronary artery aneurysms are not very uncommon but 'giant' coronary artery aneurysms are rare, with a reported prevalence of 0.02% to 0.2%. Coronary artery aneurysm may be symptomatic or asymptomatic depending on their size and location but it is very unusual for a giant coronary artery aneurysm to be asymptomatic. Here, we present a case in which the giant coronary artery aneurysm remained undiagnosed and asymptomatic for several years.
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spelling pubmed-63438592019-01-28 Giant Right Coronary Artery Aneurysm: A Case Report Saghir, Iqra Moeen, Zunera Saghir, Ghanwa Bangash, Shida Tariq, Sara Akter, Shamima Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Coronary artery aneurysms are not very uncommon but 'giant' coronary artery aneurysms are rare, with a reported prevalence of 0.02% to 0.2%. Coronary artery aneurysm may be symptomatic or asymptomatic depending on their size and location but it is very unusual for a giant coronary artery aneurysm to be asymptomatic. Here, we present a case in which the giant coronary artery aneurysm remained undiagnosed and asymptomatic for several years. Cureus 2018-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6343859/ /pubmed/30693162 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3609 Text en Copyright © 2018, Saghir 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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