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Podcast: JACC Specialty Journals
Episode: Missed Kawasaki Disease Presenting as a Giant Coronary Aneurysm | JACC: Case Reports | ACC.25
Description: Julien Dreyfus, MD, PhD, JACC: Case Reports Associate Editor, is joined by author Khalid Shakfeh, MD, discussing this study from Shakfeh et al presented at ACC.25 and published in JACC: Case Reports. A 56 year old man with chronic chest pain syndrome presented with sudden onset of weakness. Evaluation for a stroke revealed a large mass in the right atrium measuring approximately 2.2 x 2.0 cm immediately above the tricuspid valve annulus and adjacent to the atrio-ventricular groove on TTE. Cardiac MRI ruled out intracardiac mass, but rather demonstrated an RCA fusiform aneurysm. Coronary CTA characterized this as two fusiform RCA aneurysms...