Publication Date
12-1-2017
Journal
The Texas Heart Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-17-6260
PMID
29276438
Publication Date(s)
December 2017
Language
English
PMCID
PMC5737150
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
12-19-2017
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-Print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Aged, coronary vessel anomalies/diagnosis/diagnostic imaging, diagnostic techniques, cardiovascular, heart defects, congenital/diagnostic imaging, pulmonary artery/abnormalities/diagnostic imaging, tomography, x-ray computed/methods
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is rare and typically results in mitral regurgitation, ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure, and sudden death. The condition most often manifests itself in early childhood, but some individuals are diagnosed much later. We describe the case of a 75-year-old woman with heart failure in whom stepwise multimodal imaging revealed anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.