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Two‐Dimensional Echocardiographic Identification of Peripheral Coronary Artery Ectasia in an Adult
Author(s) -
TIGHE DENNIS A.,
HARPER KATHLEEN A.,
SHNIDER REED,
KALMBACH MARIANNE,
RIFKIN ROBERT D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1995.tb00839.x
Subject(s) - ectasia , medicine , coronary artery ectasia , cardiology , artery , peripheral , aneurysm , coronary angiography , coronary artery disease , radiology , right coronary artery , kawasaki disease , angiography , myocardial infarction
Coronary artery aneurysms (ectasia) have been reported to be present in up to 4.9% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. In children with Kawasaki's disease or coronary arteriovenous fistula, the transthoracic two‐dimensional echocardiographic findings associated with peripheral vessel aneurysms have been previously described. Echocardiographic imaging of peripheral coronary artery segments in the adult is difficult and to date only imaging of large, proximal coronary artery aneurysms has been reported. We report a case of an adult patient with angiographically documented extensive right coronary artery ectasia in which peripheral vessel aneurysms were identified with transthoracic echocardiography.