Cardiac tamponade due to rupture of a giant coronary artery aneurysm with a coronary arteriovenous fistula: a case report

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is defined as dilatation exceeding 1.5 times the width of the normal adjacent coronary artery segments. CAA usually causes few symptoms, and rupture is rare, but can be lethal due to cardiac tamponade when it does occur. CASE PRESENTATION: A 79-year-old wom...

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Autores principales: Shomura, Yu, Mizumoto, Toru, Fujinaga, Kazuya, Sawada, Yasuhiro, Ito, Hisato, Teranishi, Satoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30874919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-019-0597-6

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