Natural history of a giant coronary aneurysm with spontaneous dissection.
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.
Bouzas-Mosquera
Alberto
A
Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain. aboumos@canalejo.org
Vázquez-González
Nicolás
N
Alvarez-García
Nemesio
N
Soler
Rafaela
R
Rodríguez
Esther
E
Calviño-Santos
Ramón
R
Castro-Beiras
Alfonso
A
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