title: A rare case of an extracardiac unruptured aneurysm of the sinus of valsalva in a patient with single coronary artery.
abstract: A 75-year-old man with gastric cancer underwent preoperative cardiac examination by echocardiography, and an unruptured extracardiac aneurysm was detected in the right sinus of Valsalva. Coronary angiography by multidetector computed tomography demonstrated a single left coronary artery. Patch closure of the orifice of the aneurysm of the right sinus of Valsalva was successfully performed for this extremely rare combination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Medical Univeristy, Wakayama, Japan. nishim-y@wakayama-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: Kouji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Toguchj
authors.forename: Shunji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uchita
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okamura
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed