Incidental Finding of Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms Successfully Treated with Medical Therapy

We report a case of a 30-year-old male who presented with signs and symptoms of respiratory infection with left lower lobe consolidation and cardiomegaly on a chest radiography. The presence of cardiomegaly lead to further cardiac evaluation revealing giant coronary aneurysms. The patient was treate...

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Autores principales: Shammas, Rony, Sengodan, Prasanna, Movahed, Assad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31205790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7185383
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Sumario:We report a case of a 30-year-old male who presented with signs and symptoms of respiratory infection with left lower lobe consolidation and cardiomegaly on a chest radiography. The presence of cardiomegaly lead to further cardiac evaluation revealing giant coronary aneurysms. The patient was treated conservatively with Coumadin and aspirin and has done well at four years of follow-up.

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