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)LocationEtiologyManagementDiscovery

Otter and Stam [5] (1978)Left internal mammary arteryUnknownLeft lateral thoracotomy and ligation“Coin lesion” on chest X-ray
Chan and Fermanis [1] (1995)Left internal mammary arteryUnknownAngiographic embolizationSpontaneous hemothorax
Kugai and Chibana [8] (1999)Left internal thoracic arteryAtherosclerosisInternal thoracic artery aneurysmectomy and reconstruction“Angina”
Lindblom et al. [14] (2013)Left internal thoracic arteryUnknownEndovascular coilingLeft-sided shoulder pain radiating to chest
Heyn et al. [15] (2014)Left internal mammary arteryThrombotic obliterated aneurysmOpen surgical resectionPreoperative chest X-ray
Present case (2018)Left internal mammary arteryIatrogenic trauma during bypass graftingCovered stentIncidental finding during cardiac catheterization