title: Typical coronary artery aneurysm exactly within drug-eluting stent implantation region in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
abstract: The information presented comes from a case report concerning a left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm (CAA). The typical "zig-zag" phenomenon, developed exactly within the segment of the sirolimus-eluting stent (SES), and in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). The patient had a previous history of rheumatoid arthritis. We speculated that the CAA could be related to the vascular inflammatory reaction caused by the rheumatoid arthritis and the drug-eluting stent implantation.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Department of the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nankai District, Tianjin, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jing-Yuan
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Mao