A right coronary artery saccular aneurysm leading to an embolic myocardial infarction during diagnostic cardiac catheterization: A case report

摘要

Coronary artery aneurysms are localized dilatations greater than 1.5 times the diameter of the adjacent segments. These rarely seen abnormalities may lead to serious life-threatening complications such as myocardial infarction, coronary perforation and death. Here, we present a case of periprocedural thromboembolic inferior myocardial infarction arising from a proximal right coronary artery saccular aneurysm during a diagnostic coronary angiography in a stable 70-year-old patient.