• Title of article

    Right coronary artery aneurysm: Possible relation with obesity?

  • Author/Authors

    Ersan Tatli، نويسنده , , Mutlu Buyuklu، نويسنده , , Baris Onal، نويسنده , , Mesih Yel، نويسنده , , A. Turhan Kurum، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    112
  • To page
    113
  • Abstract
    Aneurysms of the coronary arteries are uncommon occurrences that usually develop secondary to atherosclerosis and are often asymptomatic. We present a 57-year-old male patient who presented with the diagnosis of an inferior wall acute myocardial infarction with a large aneurysm of the right coronary artery and with morbid obesity. To the best of our knowledge, a relationship between body mass index and coronary artery aneurysm has not been reported in the literature so far. We speculated that there is a relationship between coronary artery aneurysm and body mass index.
  • Keywords
    body mass index , Right coronary artery , Coronary Artery Aneurysm , myocardial infarction , obesity
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Cardiology
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Cardiology
  • Record number

    816177