The haemoptysis in this case could have been due to erosion of a small vessel of the compressed lung by the false aneurysm.
She presented 4 weeks after reoperation with fresh haemoptysis and was subsequently found at delayed emergency surgery to have a leaking false aortic aneurysm.
Duration and severity of arterial hypertension are likely to be important risk factors in formation of aneurysms, remote from the site of repair.
All patients had coronary changes, and six patients had giant aneurysms and severe stenotic lesions in each coronary arteries.
The initial reports dealt predominantly with the possibility of non-invasively detecting coronary aneurysms rather than with the specificity and sensitivity of the echocardiographic technique.
The cost-effectiveness of early surgery versus watchful waiting in the management of small abdominal aortic aneurysms.
In the other four patients with no symptoms of ischemia, the therapy was undertaken when thrombus was detected in a coronary aneurysm.
There was a saccular aneurysm of 5 mm diameter in the proximal thoracic descending aorta, two millimeters distal to the patent arterial duct.
