Giant right coronary pseudo-aneurysm 6 years after angioplasty and stenting

An asymptomatic 73-year-old male was referred for descending thoracic aortic aneurysm. He had a history of uneventful triple bare-metal stenting of the right coronary artery 6 years earlier. Echocardiography and cardiac computed tomography (CT) revealed a 3 cm 3 cm right coronary artery pseudoaneurysm (Fig. 1) that was treated surgically (Fig. 2). www.elsevier.com/locate/ejcts European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 37 (2010) 1227