A giant isolated right coronary aneurism.
Chiara AndreoliEmilia BiscottiniJohny HelouFederico CruscoFrancesco MarchettiMaurizio ScarpignatoPublished in: BJR case reports (2021)
A previously healthy 32-year-old female hailing from Mexico presented to the emergency department with rectorrhagia. Caseating granulomas were detected on histopathological analysis from cecum ulcerative lesions. A purified protein derivative skin test resulted positive. In order to exclude pulmonary tubercolosis, a CT lung scan was performed: a rounded and voluminous mass, located above the right atrioventricular cardiac junction, was unexpectedly revealed. Further, a cardiac magnetic resonance and a coronary angiography disclosed a giant (5 × 4,8 cm) isolated aneurysm of proximal right coronary artery with severe thrombotic layering. The patient was treated with isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide; after approximately 2 months of treatment, she had complete resolution of cecal lesions. Anticoagulant oral therapy with warfarin was started and the patient was submitted to coronary artery grafting bypass surgery.
Keyphrases
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- venous thromboembolism
- left ventricular
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- minimally invasive
- pulmonary hypertension
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart failure
- coronary artery bypass
- positron emission tomography
- dual energy
- early onset
- single cell
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