The Problem of the Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in Older Children
| Autor: | Jerome Liebman, Arthur S. Tucker, Herman K. Hellerstein, Jay L. Ankeney |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
| Předmět: |
Cardiac Catheterization
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Coronary Vessel Anomalies Retrograde Flow Pulmonary Artery Electrocardiography Left coronary artery medicine.artery Internal medicine medicine Humans In patient Child medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Coronary vessel Pulmonary artery Heart catheterization Cardiology Radiography Thoracic business Artery |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 269:486-494 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm196309052691002 |
| Popis: | THE clinical picture in patients with an anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery has not been well recognized in older children. Very few cases have been diagnosed ante mortem.1 2 3 4 Furthermore, doubt of the efficacy of ligating the aberrant coronary vessel has recently been raised.5 In 2 of the cases reported below the diagnosis of an anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery was made during life. These 2 patients were each clearly demonstrated to have retrograde flow from a normally positioned coronary artery to the abnormally positioned vessel and thus into the pulmonary artery. One . . . |
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