Congenital right coronary artery aneurysm causing myocardial infarction, pseudoaneurysm formation, and right atrial compression☆
Abstract
We present a case of a young woman with symptoms of acute myocardial infarction and found to have a nonatherosclerotic coronary aneurysm of the right coronary artery, which ruptured and formed a pseudoaneurysm. The pseudoaneurysm was sufficiently large that it mimicked an atrial mass on diagnostic imaging modalities. With the attendant risk of further rupture and compression of the heart chambers, the patient underwent successful resection of the aneurysm and pseudoaneurysm with single vessel bypass surgery. (J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2002;15:736-8.)
Rochester, Minnesota, and La Crosse, Wisconsin
From the Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and Gundersen Lutheran Hospital, La Crosse
☆ Reprint requests: Roger Click, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 (E-mail: click.roger@mayo.edu).
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