Rupture of a pseudoaneurysm of a saphenous vein coronary arterial bypass graft presenting with superior caval venous obstruction.
We describe the first reported case of rupture of a pseudoaneurysm of a sapheneous vein coronary arterial bypass graft presenting with acute superior caval venous obstruction. The patient was successfully treated by urgent surgical excision of the graft.
Rosin
M D
MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, U.K.
Ridley
P D
PD
Maxwell
P H
PH
D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed