Okita Y, Takamoto S, Ando M, Morota T, Hirai H, Kawashima Y, Watanabe H
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
J Card Surg. 1995 Jan;10(1):59-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1995.tb00592.x.
A giant aneurysm in the right sinus of Valsalva compressed the right coronary artery and caused angina pectoris in a 44-year-old man. Surgical correction consisted of obliterating the orifice of the aneurysm with a Dacron patch and relocating the right coronary artery. Postoperative angiography demonstrated excellent results. Pathological study demonstrated the absence of normal elastic fibers in the media of the aneurysm.