[Surgical treatment to an old patient with right coronary artery aneurysm; report of a case].
The patient was 75-year-old woman. The patient was referred to our hospital for operation due to a developing right coronary artery aneurysm. The coronary artery angiography showed that the aneurysm was 3 cm in diameter which had not existed two years previously, and with a 75% distal stenosis. The operation was made during cardiac arrest. A sapheous vein graft was used to bypass to the distal artery first. Then the aneurysm was resected, and both proximal and distal arteries were ligated. The pacemaker was implanted on the third postoperative day for sick sinus syndrome, the patient got a better recovery. Surgical treatment should be recommended to coronary artery aneurysm, and sapheous vein was a good selection for bypass graft when the diameter of native artery was relatively large.
Luo
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B
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, NTT East Corporation Sapporo Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
Matsui
Y
Y
Fukada
Y
Y
Tanabe
T
T
Suzuki
H
H
Tanaka
S
S
Suzuki
T
T
Nagashima
H
H
D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation