Dilatações gigantes das artérias coronárias em paciente assintomático

Carvalho, Enisa de Miranda de Freitas; Salerno, Tomás A.; Coy, Kevin

doi:10.1590/s0102-76382009000400025

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“…The etiology of coronary ectasia remains unclear; however, histopathologic studies reveal extensive collagen and elastin degradation within the coronary arterial wall [ 30 ]. Although ectasia of the coronary arteries can be asymptomatic [ 31 ], it has been reported to cause myocardial infarction secondary to embolization [ 32 ], coronary artery vasospasm [ 33 , 34 ] and progression to coronary aneurysm [ 35 ]. Ectasia can also affect saphenous vein bypass grafts [ 36 ].…”

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Left Main Coronary Artery Diverticulum: Case Report and Review of the Literature

et al. 2018

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Coronary artery disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and while most commonly is atherosclerotic, it can present with variable manifestations, both congenital and acquired. One such manifestation is coronary aneurysm, which is a localized dilatation of a coronary artery wall segment to greater than 1.5 times the adjacent normal segments. While a dilated outpouching of a coronary artery has been commonly classified as a coronary aneurysm, a non-dilated outpouching is rare and is referred to as a diverticulum, with only one previous case report in the literature. It is conceivable that other cases of coronary artery diverticulum may have been previously reported as an aneurysm, given the overlapping angiographic appearance. We present a case of a 72-year-old female patient with an incidental finding of left main coronary artery diverticulum on diagnostic coronary angiogram done for preoperative liver transplantation evaluation.

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