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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-65302412019-06-16 Incidental Finding of Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms Successfully Treated with Medical Therapy Shammas, Rony Sengodan, Prasanna Movahed, Assad Case Rep Cardiol Case Report 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. Hindawi 2019-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6530241/ /pubmed/31205790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7185383 Text en Copyright © 2019 Rony Shammas et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Incidental Finding of Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms Successfully Treated with Medical Therapy
title_fullStr Incidental Finding of Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms Successfully Treated with Medical Therapy
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title_short Incidental Finding of Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms Successfully Treated with Medical Therapy
title_sort incidental finding of giant coronary artery aneurysms successfully treated with medical therapy
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url 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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