Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient

Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is a rare disease that is associated with dangerous dormant complications. It is associated with atherosclerotic heart disease in half of the cases during a coronary angiogram. Currently, there are no guidelines for the management of such cases. We present a case of ac...

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Autores principales: Elhosseiny, Sherif, Barsoum, Emad, Kandov, Ruben, Lafferty, James C, Zgheib, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363429
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4747
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author Elhosseiny, Sherif
Barsoum, Emad
Kandov, Ruben
Lafferty, James C
Zgheib, Mohammad
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description Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is a rare disease that is associated with dangerous dormant complications. It is associated with atherosclerotic heart disease in half of the cases during a coronary angiogram. Currently, there are no guidelines for the management of such cases. We present a case of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in a male patient who was found to have diffuse aneurysmal dilation of the coronary arteries along with 100% occlusion of the right coronary artery. The complexity of the lesions caused him not to be a candidate for either percutaneous or surgical intervention. This raises an important question regarding treatment options in such a rare case.
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spelling pubmed-66632762019-07-30 Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient Elhosseiny, Sherif Barsoum, Emad Kandov, Ruben Lafferty, James C Zgheib, Mohammad Cureus Cardiology Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is a rare disease that is associated with dangerous dormant complications. It is associated with atherosclerotic heart disease in half of the cases during a coronary angiogram. Currently, there are no guidelines for the management of such cases. We present a case of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in a male patient who was found to have diffuse aneurysmal dilation of the coronary arteries along with 100% occlusion of the right coronary artery. The complexity of the lesions caused him not to be a candidate for either percutaneous or surgical intervention. This raises an important question regarding treatment options in such a rare case. Cureus 2019-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6663276/ /pubmed/31363429 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4747 Text en Copyright © 2019, Elhosseiny 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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Elhosseiny, Sherif
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Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
title Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
title_full Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
title_fullStr Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
title_full_unstemmed Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
title_short Coronary Artery Diffuse Aneurysmal Dilation in an Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient
title_sort coronary artery diffuse aneurysmal dilation in an acute myocardial infarction patient
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663276/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4747
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