Spontaneous giant "mycotic" aneurysm of the right coronary artery and purulent pericarditis: The riddle of the chicken and the egg

Hellenic J Cardiol. 2022 Mar-Apr:64:109-111. doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2021.07.005. Epub 2021 Jul 24.

Authors

Panteleimon E Papakonstantinou¹, Pantelis Gounopoulos², Achilleas Zacharoulis², Eleni Papagianni³, Konstantinos Papakonstantinou⁴, Terpsichori Fragkouli⁵, Antonios Sideris²

Affiliations

¹ Second Cardiology Department, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Second Cardiology Department, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Pathology, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 34311101
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjc.2021.07.005

No abstract available

Keywords: coronary aneurysm; infected aneurysm; mycotic aneurysm; pericarditis.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aneurysm, Infected*
Animals
Chickens
Coronary Aneurysm*
Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Pericarditis*