title: Giant aneurysm of aortocoronary saphenous vein graft compressing the left pulmonary artery.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. bruno_chiappini@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chiappini
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poncelet
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Noirhomme
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verhelst
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rubay
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Funken
authors.forename: Gebrine El
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Khoury
mesh_terms: 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