Coronary artery fistula: a huge conus branch aneurysm
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چکیده
Coronary artery fistulas are rare coronary-cardiac anomalies, which occasionally become symptomatic. We herein report a case of a 54-year-old woman with a huge conus branch aneurysm resulting from an abnormal fistula between the conus branch and the upper portion of the right atrium, which was successfully removed by surgery.
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The authors report an interesting case of an adult patient with a coronary anomaly who underwent successful operative treatment. The presented morphology of coronary fistula with the effect of coronary ‘aneurysm’ was doubly unique because of its origin from the conal branch of the right coronary artery. Congenital anomalies of coronary arteries are usually diagnosed early in childhood and can b...
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