Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare, and giant CAAs are even rarer. The pathophysiology of this phenomenon is still unknown. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we present the case of a 49-year-old male with a giant aneurysm in the left anterior descending artery. CONCLUSIONS: The optimal t...

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Autores principales: Peng, Yong, Li, Yaxiong, Jiang, Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32731891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01250-8
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description BACKGROUND: Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare, and giant CAAs are even rarer. The pathophysiology of this phenomenon is still unknown. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we present the case of a 49-year-old male with a giant aneurysm in the left anterior descending artery. CONCLUSIONS: The optimal treatment for CAAs is debatable, but surgical intervention is preferred for giant CAAs.
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spelling pubmed-73936962020-08-04 Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm Peng, Yong Li, Yaxiong Jiang, Yu J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare, and giant CAAs are even rarer. The pathophysiology of this phenomenon is still unknown. CASE PRESENTATION: Herein, we present the case of a 49-year-old male with a giant aneurysm in the left anterior descending artery. CONCLUSIONS: The optimal treatment for CAAs is debatable, but surgical intervention is preferred for giant CAAs. BioMed Central 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7393696/ /pubmed/32731891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01250-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm
title_full Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm
title_fullStr Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm
title_full_unstemmed Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm
title_short Rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm
title_sort rare case of a giant thrombosed left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32731891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-020-01250-8
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