Dissecting Aneurysms of the Coronary Artery

Abstract

ANEURYSMS of the coronary arteries are decidedly uncommon. They comprise congenital, mycoticembolic, syphilitic, polyarteritis-nodosa, arteriosclerotic and dissecting types. Of these, arteriosclerotic aneurysms and those resulting from polyarteritis nodosa are the most common whereas dissecting aneurysms are very rare. In 1962 two of us1 reported a case of such an aneurysm in a thirty-five-year-old mother who died unexpectedly six weeks post partum. Since that time 3 more cases very like the first have been obtained. In addition there is a dissimilar case, that of a forty-nine-year-old woman who died seven days after a segmentectomy of the left lower pulmonary lobe for . . .