CORONARY-ARTERY ANEURYSMS - AN UNUSUAL CASE-REPORT AND A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) were first recognized in postmortem studies. More recently they have been recognized in antemortem and angiographic studies and are reported to occur at an incidence of 1-2%. Left main coronary aneurysms (LMCA) are extremely rare with an incidence of 0.1%. Most of the aneurysms discovered in these angiographic studies have been in patients with cardiac symptoms of angina or acute myocardial infarction who subsequently were found to have severe narrowing of the coronary arteries. Angiographic and clinical data of a patient with a large aneurysm of the left main coronary artery and with aneurysmal disease of the thoracic and abdominal aorta are presented along with a review of the literature.