Coronary artery fistulas are a rare clinical entity in cardiac anomalies, and in a significant portion of patients, the fistulas are accompanied by coronary aneurysm formation. In this article, we present a giant circumflex coronary artery aneurysm with a fistula into the coronary sinus.

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants contributing to the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at the chromosome 9p21 locus. The chromosome 9p21 is an important susceptibility locus for several multifactorial diseases like ischemic stroke, aortic aneurysm, type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease (CAD). F7 gene because of its role in activating the ...

genome-wide association studies (gwas) have identified genetic variants contributing to the risk of cardiovascular disease (cvd) at the chromosome 9p21 locus. the chromosome 9p21 is an important susceptibility locus for several multifactorial diseases like ischemic stroke, aortic aneurysm, type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease (cad). f7 gene because of its role in activating the ...

Figure 1: Preoperative chest computed tomography showed an idiopathic aortic root aneurysm with a maximal size of 15 cm, greatly compressing the left ventricular outflow tract, ascending aorta, right atrium and right ventricle. There was a persistent left superior vena cava. There were no clinical findings of Marfan syndrome or Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Figure 2: A cardiopulmonary bypass was made...

The giant coronary artery aneurysm combined with coronary artery fistula is extremely uncommon. In our case, there was a giant aneurysm of the left main coronary artery with fistulous communication to the right atrium, combined with moderate aortic valve regurgitation, which was initially found by transthoracic echocardiogram and subsequently confirmed by the 256-slice multidetector computer to...

Two cases of coronary artery disease coexisting with abdominal aortic aneurysm were treated with off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting combined with repair of the aneurysm. The first patient was a 67-year-old man exhibiting a large pulsating abdominal mass. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a 9-cm aneurysm and coronary angiogram revealed a 90% stenosis of the obtuse marginal branch ...

Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA), defined as dilatation of the coronary artery exceeding 50% of the reference vessel diameter, is uncommon and occurs in 5% of coronary angiographic series.1 CAAs are termed giant if their diameter exceeds the reference vessel diameter by 4 times or if they are 8 mm in diameter.2 Atherosclerosis accounts for the vast majority of CAAs in adults, whereas Kawasaki dis...

A 68-year-old woman exhibited an increasingly protruding mass on the left heart border on chest X-ray. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed an echo-free mass in the anterior pericardial space. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed blood flow from the proximal left anterior descending coronary into a large coronary artery aneurysm measuring 61 mm × 51 mm in diameter and a quadricuspid aor...

Coronary artery aneurysm or ectasia was reported in approximately 15% to 25% of the affected children, particularly in the proximal end of the main blood vessel and the left anterior descending part. Rare patients have been reported with aneurysm in the distal end of the right coronary artery. In this case report, we present a rare case with aneurysm in the distal end of the right coronary arte...

Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) are rare and their management is controversial. Their incidence varies from 1,5% to 5% of the coronary angiographies, with predilection of the right coronary artery. Unruptured coronary aneurysms are often silent and may remain undiagnosed. The etiology can be either congenital or acquired. We describe a case of a left anterior descending artery (LAD) aneurysm t...