Journal Information
Vol. 42. Issue 4.
Pages e6 (May 2018)
Images in Intensive Medicine
Full text access
Acute coronary syndrome due to a giant right coronary artery aneurysm
Síndrome coronario agudo provocado por un aneurisma de la arteria coronaria derecha
Visits
4950
E. Villarreal
Corresponding author
esthervillarrealtello@gmail.com

Corresponding author.
, R. Jannone, A. Castellanos
Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain
This item has received
Article information
Full Text
Download PDF
Statistics
Figures (2)
Full Text

A 74-year-old woman with cardiovascular risk factor was seen in the emergency service due to self-limiting oppressive central chest pain accompanied by neurovegetative manifestations. The electrocardiographic tracing revealed an inferior subepicardial lesion. Coronary angiography showed a highly ectasic right coronary artery with slowed flow and contrast penetration into the pericardium. In view of these atypical findings, echocardiography was performed, revealing a rounded mass (8.6cm×6cm) exerting an extrinsic compressive effect at atrioventricular sulcus level (Fig. 1). Coronary CT in turn showed active bleeding dependent on the right coronary artery, producing a hematoma contained in the epicardium (pseudoaneurysm), with absence of flow in the distal segment probably secondary to compression (Fig. 2). Based on these tests we diagnosed acute myocardial infarction secondary to right coronary aneurysm, and surgical revascularization of the distal right coronary was decided. The postoperative course proved favorable, and the patient was discharged home within a week.

Figure 1.

(A) Sub-xiphoid plane. (B) Four-chambers plane. RA: right atrium; RV: right ventricle.

(0.1MB).
Figure 2.

AngioCT, showing the right coronary aneurysm compressing the right-side heart cavities. RA: right atrium; RV: right ventricle.

(0.12MB).

Please cite this article as: Villarreal E, Jannone R, Castellanos A. Síndrome coronario agudo provocado por un aneurisma de la arteria coronaria derecha. Med Intensiva. 2018;42:e6.

Copyright © 2016. Elsevier España, S.L.U. and SEMICYUC
Idiomas
Medicina Intensiva (English Edition)
Article options
Tools
es en

¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?