Multimodality imaging of a left main coronary artery-to-pulmonary artery fistula

Autor: Corrado Tamburino, Giuseppe Ronsivalle, Marta Chiarandà, Fabio Dipasqua, Michele Occhipinti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Valeria Cammalleri, Anna Caggegi, Salvatore Scandura, Francesco Marzà
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
coronary fistula
ischemia
pulmonary artery
Adolescent
Arterio-Arterial Fistula
Coronary Vessel Anomalies
Echocardiography
Doppler
Color

Humans
Male
Multimodal Imaging
Pulmonary Artery
Tomography
X-Ray Computed

medicine.medical_specialty
Fistula
Ischemia
Color
Settore MED/11 - Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Asymptomatic
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
medicine.artery
Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
Medicine
Pulmonary Trunk
Tomography
business.industry
Doppler
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Coronary computed tomography
X-Ray Computed
medicine.anatomical_structure
Echocardiography
Pulmonary artery
Cardiology
Radiology
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Artery
Popis: We report a case of a 17-year-old young man with a coronary fistula incidentally diagnosed. On transthoracic echocardiography, an abnormal flow draining into the pulmonary trunk was evidenced. Coronary computed tomography confirmed the presence of a small coronary fistula connecting the proximal part of the left anterior descending artery to the pulmonary trunk. As the patient was completely asymptomatic, in order to guide the clinical management and exclude any underlying ischemic phenomena, the patient underwent stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy which was negative for ischemia.
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