title: Giant circumflex coronary artery aneurysm associated with cystic medial necrosis in a non-Marfan patient.
abstract: Giant coronary artery aneurysm is rare, and its cause and natural history has not been clearly delineated. We present a patient without Marfan syndrome who had a giant coronary artery aneurysm of the circumflex coronary artery. After the surgical resection, the underlying pathology of the aneurysm was thought to be associated with cystic medial necrosis of arterial wall because of its progressive enlargement.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Goro
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Matsumiya
authors.forename: Motonobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsue
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tomita
authors.forename: Yoshiki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sawa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017540:Tunica Media / Q000473:pathology*