P1329 An unexpected finding in a patient wth previous coronary artery bypass grafts and atypical chest pain

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Abstract A 79-year-old male with a previous history of ischaemic heart disease and previous coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in 2005 presented with atypical chest pain. He also had past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidaemia and bladder diverticulum which has been previously investigated by an abdominal CT. The latter had showed an incidental finding of what was reported to be a large pericardial cyst. Despite poor acoustic window, transthoracic echocardiography revealed a spherical echo–free structure in the area of the right atrioventricular groove (Figure 1, panel A white arrow). As the patient was too claustrophobic to undergo cardiac MRI, he was subsequently referred for a cardiac CT in order to further investigate the cystic mass and assess graft patency. The CT revealed an occluded left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to the LAD, severe left main (LM) and proximal LAD disease, a patent vein graft to an obtuse marginal (OM) branch and identified a largely thrombosed giant aneurysm (62x65x89 mm) of an otherwise patent vein graft to the RCA (Figure 1, panels B–E, white arrows point to the thrombosed and yellow arrows point to the non-thrombosed segments of the vein graft aneurysm). Coronary angiography confirmed occlusion of the LIMA, patency of the OM vein graft and identified only the non-thrombosed segment of the RCA vein graft aneurysm (Figure 1, panel F). The case was discussed at an MDT meeting and it was decided to proceed with LM and LAD stenting, and initially conservative management and close surveillance of the RCA vein graft aneurysm as the patient was high–risk for repeat CABG due to age, frailty and other comorbidities. Abstract P1329 Figure 1

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