Giant aneurysm of aortocoronary saphenous vein graft compressing the left pulmonary artery.
This is a case report of a 78-year-old patient with a 7-cm aneurysm of the saphenous vein graft that was used 17 years before to perform a coronary artery bypass grafting on the circumflex artery. CT scan displayed a mass with an internal lumen compressing the left atrium as well as the left pulmonary artery.
Chiappini
Bruno
B
Department of Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. bruno_chiappini@hotmail.com
Poncelet
Alain
A
Noirhomme
Philippe
P
Verhelst
Robert
R
Rubay
Jean
J
Funken
Jean-Christophe
JC
Khoury
Gebrine El
GE
D000368:Aged; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000637:transplantation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed