title: Incidental echocardiographic detection of coronary artery aneurysm in a patient with multiple vascular aneurysms.
abstract: This is a case of a 74-year-old male with known multiple peripheral aneurysms. The patient presented for resection of a right popliteal aneurysm. During a routine preoperative transthoracic echocardiography, we detected a cystic structure on the inferolateral aspect of the basal left ventricle and the left atrium along the atrioventricular groove. A CT scan confirmed this to be a left circumflex artery aneurysm. The patient subsequently died of a ruptured berry aneurysm and an intracranial bleed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212, USA. milinddesai70@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Milind Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: Robert W W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Biederman
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mankad
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011150:Popliteal Artery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed