Case Report
Incidental Finding and Endovascular Repair of a Left Internal Mammary Artery Aneurysm following a Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
Table 1
Previously reported artery aneurysms [
8].
| Study (year) | Location | Etiology | Management | Discovery |
| Otter and Stam [5] (1978) | Left internal mammary artery | Unknown | Left lateral thoracotomy and ligation | “Coin lesion” on chest X-ray | Chan and Fermanis [1] (1995) | Left internal mammary artery | Unknown | Angiographic embolization | Spontaneous hemothorax | Kugai and Chibana [8] (1999) | Left internal thoracic artery | Atherosclerosis | Internal thoracic artery aneurysmectomy and reconstruction | “Angina” | Lindblom et al. [14] (2013) | Left internal thoracic artery | Unknown | Endovascular coiling | Left-sided shoulder pain radiating to chest | Heyn et al. [15] (2014) | Left internal mammary artery | Thrombotic obliterated aneurysm | Open surgical resection | Preoperative chest X-ray | Present case (2018) | Left internal mammary artery | Iatrogenic trauma during bypass grafting | Covered stent | Incidental finding during cardiac catheterization |
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