An Incidentally Discovered Large Left Main Coronary Artery Aneurysm

Left main coronary artery aneurysms (LMCAA) are rare. The most common cause is atherosclerosis followed by congenital malformations. Patients with LMCAA can present with shortness of breath and angina if there is coexisting obstructive coronary artery disease. Here we describe a patient incidentally...

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Autores principales: Elsadany, Mohammed, Selter, Jared, Mattana, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7423498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32802608
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9172
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description Left main coronary artery aneurysms (LMCAA) are rare. The most common cause is atherosclerosis followed by congenital malformations. Patients with LMCAA can present with shortness of breath and angina if there is coexisting obstructive coronary artery disease. Here we describe a patient incidentally found to have a 2 cm aneurysm of the left main coronary artery in the setting of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and we discuss potential medical and surgical treatment options for this incompletely understood condition.
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spelling pubmed-74234982020-08-14 An Incidentally Discovered Large Left Main Coronary Artery Aneurysm Elsadany, Mohammed Selter, Jared Mattana, Joseph Cureus Cardiology Left main coronary artery aneurysms (LMCAA) are rare. The most common cause is atherosclerosis followed by congenital malformations. Patients with LMCAA can present with shortness of breath and angina if there is coexisting obstructive coronary artery disease. Here we describe a patient incidentally found to have a 2 cm aneurysm of the left main coronary artery in the setting of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and we discuss potential medical and surgical treatment options for this incompletely understood condition. Cureus 2020-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7423498/ /pubmed/32802608 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9172 Text en Copyright © 2020, Elsadany 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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