title: Echocardiographic diagnosis in diffusely aneurysmal coronary artery disease.
abstract: We present the case of a 73-year-old male with diffusely aneurysmal artery disease. Echocardiography revealed a 4.5 cm mass, adjacent to the right side of the heart, suggesting a diagnosis of coronary artery aneurysm. The findings were confirmed at magnetic resonance imaging and coronary angiography. Moreover, in view of the reported strong association between coronary and cerebral artery disease, the patient was submitted to cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, which also demonstrated aneurysmal disease involving the cerebral arteries.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Systemic Disease, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. safelis@tin.it
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Felis
authors.forename: Wanda
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Deste
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ragusa
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giannotta
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Casaccio
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barbagallo
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scandura
authors.forename: Corrado
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tamburino
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giuffrida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male