A Giant Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysm Treated With Percutaneous Closure

Pawel Klementowicz, MD; Joel P. Giblett, MD; Sanjay K.B. Agrawal, MD; Leonard M. Shapiro, MD; Patrick A. Calvert, MA, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2019)

A Giant Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysm Treated With Percutaneous Closure

Pawel Klementowicz, MD,
Joel P. Giblett, MD,
Sanjay K.B. Agrawal, MD,
Leonard M. Shapiro, MD,
Patrick A. Calvert, MA, PhD

Affiliations

Pawel Klementowicz, MD: Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Joel P. Giblett, MD: Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Division of Cardiology, Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Sanjay K.B. Agrawal, MD: Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Leonard M. Shapiro, MD: Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Patrick A. Calvert, MA, PhD: Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Address for correspondence: Dr. Patrick Calvert, Department of Cardiology, Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge CB2 0AY, United Kingdom.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 5
pp. 727 – 731

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A patient with a history of coronary artery bypass graft presented with breathlessness and was found to have an 11 × 6 cm aneurysm in a distally occluded saphenous vein graft. This case describes the investigation, heart team discussion, and percutaneous closure of the aneurysm. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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