Successful surgical treatment of a giant coronary artery aneurysm presenting with recurrent profuse haemoptysis

doi:10.1186/1749-8090-3-36

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Case report

Successful surgical treatment of a giant coronary artery aneurysm presenting with recurrent profuse haemoptysis

Opoku-Ware Mensah¹ , Philip AR Hayward¹ , Michael Koeppe² and Christof Huth²

¹Essex Cardiothoracic Centre, Basildon, UK

²Klinik für Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2008, 3:36doi:10.1186/1749-8090-3-36


Published:	29 June 2008

Abstract

We present the case of successful resection of a giant aneurysm of the LAD presenting with recurrent severe haemoptysis in a 72-year old man. He was admitted to a regional hospital with fever, recurrent bloody sputum, weight loss and left sided chest pain, and developed respiratory failure requiring ventilation. Investigations are summarised and reviewed and the diagnosis was eventually reached by TTE, CT and MRI scans, confirmed by coronary angiography. Successful emergency surgery to resect the aneurysm and put a vein graft to the LAD is described. The presentation and management of coronary giant aneurysm is reviewed.