title: [Left circumflex coronary aneurysm with separated left main trunk].
abstract: We report a left circumflex coronary aneurysm associated with separated left main coronary trunks (LMT). A 66-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further examination of dyspnea on effort. He has been performed maintenance hemodialysis since 1999 for chronic renal failure. Coronary angiography and multislice spiral computed tomography (CT) revealed an unusual coronary anatomic variance in which separate origins of the left anterior descending (LAD) and left circumflex (LCx) coronary arteries arose from the left coronary aortic sinus. Furthermore, these images of the LCx revealed an aneurysm 2 cm in diameter and 99% stenosis at the proximal of side of the aneurysm. Under cardioplegic arrest, the aneurysm was ligated and coronary artery bypass grafting (left thoracic artery to posterolateral branch) was performed. The patient was discharged at the 20th postoperative day without any complication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shonan-Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawahito
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagano
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014654:Vascular Patency