title: Giant coronary artery aneurysm seen on blood-pool study.
abstract: An 81-year-old man was incidentally found to have a large pericardial cyst on a chest computed tomography. Before surgical removal, an echocardiogram demonstrated that the cyst was more likely a large (7.5 cm) right coronary arterial aneurysm. A cardiac blood-pool study demonstrated a blood-filled structure adjacent to the heart, roughly the same size as the combined size of both the right and left ventricles. Coronary angiography confirmed the presence of a large right coronary artery aneurysm. A coronary aneurysm should be considered when a blood-filled structure is seen adjacent to the heart on a multigated acquisition scan.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trujillo
authors.forename: Suthipong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soontrapa
authors.forename: Preeti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Sharmila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sehli
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Jose A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Suarez
authors.forename: Aliakbar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arvandi
authors.forename: Ralph F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Paone
authors.forename: Gary E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Meyerrose
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography