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#Redirect [[Coronary artery aneurysm]]
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==Overview==
Coronary artery aneurysm is an abnormal dilatation of a [[coronary artery]] segment over 1.5 times the diameter.<ref name="pmid4897732">{{cite journal| author=Jarcho S| title=Bougon on coronary aneurysm (1812). | journal=Am J Cardiol | year= 1969 | volume= 24 | issue= 4 | pages= 551-3 | pmid=4897732 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=4897732  }} </ref>  Ectasia is a localized arterial widening (dilatation) that usually manifests itself as a bulge, its presence may lead to weakening of the wall and eventual rupture.  A coronary artery ectasia can be classified as follows: grade 0 corresponds to absence of any ectasia, grade 1 is present when there is visual assessment of [[ectasia]] >1 & < 1.5 times the normal artery diameter located anywhere in the culprit artery and grade 3 is present when there is visual assessment of an [[aneurysm]] > 1.5 times the normal artery diameter located anywhere in the culprit artery.  An [[aneurysm]] can be further classified as either [[saccular]] (wider than it is long) or [[fusiform]] (elongated).
 
==Example==
===Grade 0===
None – no [[ectasia]] present.
 
===Grade 1===
[[Ectasia]] – visual assessment of [[ectasia]] >1 & < 1.5 times the normal artery diameter located anywhere in the culprit artery.
 
===Grade 2===
Aneurysm – visual assessment of an [[aneurysm]] > 1.5 times the normal artery diameter located anywhere in the culprit artery.
 
 
==References==
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{{Coronary Angiography}}
 
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