Surgical treatment of a giant left main aneurysm

We report the case of a 75-year old man with a clinical symptom of chest pain on exertion, worsening in the last 6 months, who was diagnosed with a giant left main aneurysm. Surgical ligation of the proximal left anterior descending artery and first diagonal and triple bypass, using saphenous vein graft to vascularize the proximal circumflex artery, left anterior descending artery and first diagonal, was performed.

Source: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery - January 3, 2017 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Viola, L., Keita, L., Veerasingam, D. Tags: Electrophysiology - arrhythmias, Molecular biology Adult Cardiac Source Type: research