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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:1401-1403
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Direct repair of giant right coronary aneurysm

Stephen Westaby, FRCSa, Giuseppe Vaccari, MDa, Takahiro Katsumata, MD, PhDa

a Department of Cardiac Surgery, Oxford Heart Centre, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Address reprint requests to Dr Westaby, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Oxford Heart Centre, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, England
e-mail: swestaby{at}ahf.org.uk

We describe a novel method for surgical repair of giant right coronary aneurysm. Instead of aneurysm ligation and coronary bypass we mobilized the inflow and outflow and performed end-to-end anastomosis. This preserved the native vessel. Restudy in both patients confirmed the effectiveness of this technique.




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