Double right coronary artery; fistula and atherosclerosis

Combination of the primary congenital coronary artery anomalies, fistula and atherosclerosis rarely occur. We report a 50-year-old male who presented with severe chest pain, for which he underwent a coronary angiography. Injection into the right coronary artery (RCA) demonstrated a double RCA runnin...

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Veröffentlicht in:General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2005-05, Vol.53 (5), p.283-285
Hauptverfasser: Resatoglu, Adem Grbolar, Elnur, ELAmin E, Yener, Nuran, Elhassan, Huda, Yener, Ali
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Combination of the primary congenital coronary artery anomalies, fistula and atherosclerosis rarely occur. We report a 50-year-old male who presented with severe chest pain, for which he underwent a coronary angiography. Injection into the right coronary artery (RCA) demonstrated a double RCA running very closely together in the atrioventricular groove. The superior one gave rise to a coronary fistula leading to the right ventricle and the inferior one was atherosclerotic. Both of them terminated as a posterior descending artery. The left system showed occlusion of the left anterior descending and major obtuse marginal. Both were corrected surgically.
ISSN:1863-6705
1863-6713
DOI:10.1007/s11748-005-0043-5