Angiography Demonstrating a Giant Left Circumflex Coronary Artery Aneurysm
Grigorios Tsigkas, MD, PhD; Georgios Vasilagkos, MS; Petros Zampakis, MD, PhD; Periklis Davlouros, MD, PhD
Introduction
Video supplement to “A Giant Left Circumflex Coronary Artery Aneurysm” by Tsigkas et al. (September 2021 Clinical Images).
A patient was referred for aortic valve replacement and aneurysm resection; however, the aneurysm was deemed to be non-resectable due to severe calcification, thus posing a high operative risk. The patient eventually underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Eleven years later, coronary angiography depicted a giant coronary artery aneurysm measuring 63 mm in diameter and containing intraluminal thrombus. To our knowledge, this is the largest giant coronary artery aneurysm reported in the literature.
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