CONGENITAL SINGLE CORONARY ARTERY: A RARE ANOMALY

Authors

  • Rashid Ahmed
  • Binish Rasheed
  • Shahzad Babar Kureshi

Keywords:

Coronary artery anomalies (CAAs), Single coronary artery, Multi detector computed tomographic angiography (MDCTA)

Abstract

Congenital coronary artery anomalies (CAAs) affect approxim ately 1% o f general population undergoing coronary angiography. The incidence o f single coronary artery is very rare specially in the absence o f any structural heart disease and accounts for 0.024% - 0.044% o f cases. This case report describes a single coronary artery arising from right aortic cusp w hich was trifurcating into right coronary artery (RCA), circum flex artery (CX) and left anterior descending artery (LAD). The left anterior descending (LAD) followed a m alignant course between m ain pulm onary artery and aorta m aking it vulnerable to ischaemia.
The advantage o f m ulti detector com puted tom ographic angiography (MDCTA) lies prim arily in its high diagnostic and anatom ic accuracy because of its three dimensional (3D) capability and flexible post processing.

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Published

2008-12-18

How to Cite

Ahmed, R. ., Rasheed, B. ., & Babar Kureshi, S. . (2008). CONGENITAL SINGLE CORONARY ARTERY: A RARE ANOMALY. Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences (JDUHS), 2(3), 115–117. Retrieved from https://jduhs.jduhs.duhs.edu.pk/index.php/jduhs/article/view/1284

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 3

Section

Case Report

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