title: Natural history of a giant coronary aneurysm with spontaneous dissection.
abstract: Primary spontaneous coronary artery dissection may appear in young women during the peripartum period or as a result of atherosclerosis. We present a patient with familial hypercholesterolemia who developed a giant aneurysm of the right coronary artery in the setting of atherosclerotic spontaneous coronary dissection over an 8 year period. This report illustrates the association between spontaneous coronary artery dissection and subsequent coronary aneurysm formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain. aboumos@canalejo.org
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bouzas-Mosquera
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vázquez-González
authors.forename: Nemesio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alvarez-García
authors.forename: Rafaela
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Soler
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: Ramón
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Calviño-Santos
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castro-Beiras
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D006938:Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged