Excision of right coronary artery aneurysm
Junichi Shimamura1, Hiroshi Kubota, Hidehito Endo
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan. junichi.shimamura@gmail.com
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|November 3, 2010
Abstract:
A coronary artery aneurysm (CAA), the etiology and treatment of which are still not fully understood, is uncommonly encountered. A giant CAA is extremely rare and only a limited number of cases have been reported. We report the case of a 37-year-old female with a giant right coronary artery aneurysm that was successfully treated by surgical excision.
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