Multiple Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms: A Rare Cause of Sudden Cardiac Death

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00179906:_____/17:10370242

Result on the web

<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.13264/full" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.13264/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13264" target="_blank" >10.1111/1556-4029.13264</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multiple Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms: A Rare Cause of Sudden Cardiac Death

Original language description

Multiple giant aneurysms involving the coronary arteries are uncommon and rarely reported. In the presented case, a 63-year-old man with poorly controlled hypertension died suddenly. Gross autopsy examination showed multiple giant thrombus-filled coronary artery aneurysms, atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, and cardiomegaly. Histological sections of the coronary aneurysms showed atherosclerotic changes with both organized and fresh thrombus. Giant coronary aneurysm is defined as a segmental enlargement of a coronary artery with a diameter exceeding 20 mm or more. The main etiology of this nebulous entity is attributed to atherosclerosis and inflammatory or inherited connective tissue disorders with the remainder being congenital, infectious, or idiopathic. Before its cataclysmic presentation, when ruptured or thrombosed, giant coronary aneurysm usually has a silent clinical course. Sudden death owing to giant multiple coronary aneurysms is rare and mandates careful classification of the aneurysms and prudent search for autoimmune-mediated or genetically based factors for subsequent ancillary autopsy studies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30501 - Forensic science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Forensic Sciences

ISSN

0022-1198

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

62

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

515-518

UT code for WoS article

000395034500031

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85002690330