Successful treatment of an unusual cause of myocardial ischemia.
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rom the Departments of Cardiology and †CT, undersen Lutheran Health ystem, La Crosse, isconsin; ‡Department of ardiology Research, undersen Lutheran edical Foundation, a Crosse, Wisconsin; and he §Cardiothoracic Surgery, niversity of Wisconsin ospital and Clinics, adison, Wisconsin. anuscript received ecember 10, 2008; evised manuscript eceived January 22, 2009, ccepted February 3, 2009. A42-year-old woman experienced chronic chest pain upon exertion for 5 years. The patient was able to exercise to 10 metabolic equivalents without symptoms or electrocardiographic abnormalities with an exercise echocardiography stress test; however, the echocardiography portion of the stress test revealed inferior wall hypokinesis at peak stress, which is indicative of inducible inferior wall myocardial ischemia. Therefore, multidetector dual source computed tomography coronary angiography was performed and revealed a coronary artery calcium score of 0 with no evidence of atherosclerosis. However, the dominant right coronary artery (RCA) was found to originate from a narrow slit-like opening in the left coronary sinus of Valsalva coursing anteriorly and toward the right with a proximal intramural, interarterial course (A to D). This anomaly accounted for the abnormality on the exercise echocardiogram. The patient was referred for deroofing of the proximal RCA with creation of a neo-ostium (E). Surgery was successful with no unforeseen events (E to G), and the patient had complete resolution of symptoms. LA left atrium; LAA left atrial appendage; LCC left common carotid artery; LMCA left main coronary artery; LUPV left upper pulmonary vein; NCC noncoronary cusp; RA right atrium; RCC right common carotid artery; RVOT right ventricular outublished by Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2009.02.072
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
دوره 54 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009