Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft

Giant coronary artery aneurysms are rare and challenging to treat because of variation in the presenting symptoms and the lack of established management guidelines. We report the case of a patient with a 6-cm-wide giant coronary artery aneurysm that was resected, followed by reconstruction using a s...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Yelee, Park, Chong Bin, Kang, Pil Je, Cho, Won Chul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8181689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173019
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/jcs.20.109
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author Kwon, Yelee
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description Giant coronary artery aneurysms are rare and challenging to treat because of variation in the presenting symptoms and the lack of established management guidelines. We report the case of a patient with a 6-cm-wide giant coronary artery aneurysm that was resected, followed by reconstruction using a saphenous vein graft and 18 years of follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-81816892021-06-16 Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft Kwon, Yelee Park, Chong Bin Kang, Pil Je Cho, Won Chul J Chest Surg Case Report Giant coronary artery aneurysms are rare and challenging to treat because of variation in the presenting symptoms and the lack of established management guidelines. We report the case of a patient with a 6-cm-wide giant coronary artery aneurysm that was resected, followed by reconstruction using a saphenous vein graft and 18 years of follow-up. The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2021-06-05 2021-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8181689/ /pubmed/33173019 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/jcs.20.109 Text en Copyright © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2021. All right reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft
title Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft
title_full Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft
title_fullStr Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft
title_full_unstemmed Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft
title_short Eighteen Years of Follow-up after Resection of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm and Reconstruction with a Vein Graft
title_sort eighteen years of follow-up after resection of a giant coronary artery aneurysm and reconstruction with a vein graft
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8181689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173019
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/jcs.20.109
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