TY - JOUR
T1 - Left Upper Extremity Pain, Right Coronary Artery Culprit
T2 - A Puzzling Path to Aneurysm Discovery
AU - Alfawara, Moath Said
AU - Modi, Vivek
AU - Chao, Min Fang
AU - Nayfeh, Malek
AU - Alahdab, Fares
AU - Alrifai, Mahmoud
AU - Al-Mallah, Mouaz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s).
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Giant coronary artery aneurysm (GCA) is a rare disease afflicting 0.2% of the population. It is primarily attributed to atherosclerosis in adults and Kawasaki disease in children. Other uncommon etiologies include Takayasu arteritis and post-percutaneous coronary intervention.1,2 GCA lacks a universally accepted definition, with proposed criteria including a diameter exceeding 2 cm, 5 cm, or four times the normal vessel size.3 While the majority of GCAs are asymptomatic, a subset of patients present with angina, myocardial infarction from embolization or compression, heart failure due to fistula formation, or even sudden death.1 We report a case of an adult harboring a GCA involving the right coronary artery.
AB - Giant coronary artery aneurysm (GCA) is a rare disease afflicting 0.2% of the population. It is primarily attributed to atherosclerosis in adults and Kawasaki disease in children. Other uncommon etiologies include Takayasu arteritis and post-percutaneous coronary intervention.1,2 GCA lacks a universally accepted definition, with proposed criteria including a diameter exceeding 2 cm, 5 cm, or four times the normal vessel size.3 While the majority of GCAs are asymptomatic, a subset of patients present with angina, myocardial infarction from embolization or compression, heart failure due to fistula formation, or even sudden death.1 We report a case of an adult harboring a GCA involving the right coronary artery.
KW - atherosclerosis
KW - giant coronary artery aneurysm
KW - multimodality cardiac imaging
KW - right coronary artery
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U2 - 10.14797/mdcvj.1287
DO - 10.14797/mdcvj.1287
M3 - Article
C2 - 38618608
AN - SCOPUS:85190901126
SN - 1947-6094
VL - 20
SP - 14
EP - 17
JO - Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal
JF - Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal
IS - 1
ER -