A 23-year-old man was hospitalized with the complaint of exertion dyspnea. Physical examination revealed a third degree diastolic murmur best heard at the left parasternal area. Electrocardiogram showed normal sinus rhythm. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed aneurysmatic dilatation of the left main coronary artery (CA) in addition to the large coronary cameral fistula between the left CA a...

Communication between the coronary arteries and the cardiac chambers is a rare event. In the 22,500 post-mortems performed at the General Hospital, Singapore, over the past decade, there were some 520 cases of congenital heart disease. In this material there were three examples of this unusual anomaly, all occurring in infants of Chinese race. As about 30 cases of this anomaly have now been des...

The average frequency of coronary-cameral communication (CCC) is 0.09% in the population who undergoes coronary angiography. In addition, coronary-cameral fistula (CCF) constitutes 10% of all CCCs. CCF is probably very rare in adult patients, because the majority of them is detected and treated during childhood. Hereby, we present an asymptomatic adult patient with CCF who was diagnosed inciden...

Coronary artery anomalies include anomalies of origin, termination, structure or course. Coronary artery fistulae (CAF) are classified as abnormalities of termination and are considered a major congenital anomaly. A coronary artery fistula involves a sizable communication between a coronary artery, bypassing the myocardial capillary bed and entering either a chamber of the heart (coronary-camer...

coronary-cameral fistulas (ccfs) constitute a rare anomaly that can be incidentally detected during angiography. ccfs are solitary, large or small assemblies that originate from coronary arteries and enter one of the cardiac chambers. we describe a 29-year-old woman, who referred to our clinic with the chief complaints of palpitation, atypical chest pain, and dyspnea on exertion (functional cla...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the coronary angiograms of patients with symptomatic heart disease in order to determine the frequency and characteristics of coronary-cameral communications (CCCs) in a single center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The coronary angiograms of 16,573 patients with symptomatic heart disease performed from November 2001 to January 2011 were analyzed. The diagnosis of coronary fistula ...

Coronary-cameral fistula (CCF) is an anomalous connection between a coronary artery and cardiac chamber. Most of CCFs are discovered incidentally during angiographic evaluation for coronary vascular disorder. We report a case of CCF with angina pectoris. Selective coronary arteriography revealed diffuse CCF involving the left anterior descending artery (LAD) emptying into left ventricle (LV) an...

Traumatic coronary artery-cameral fistulas (TCAF) are rare and may present secondary to penetrating injuries (80%) or iatrogenic traumas. Early operative intervention remains the recommended treatment modality for accidental traumatic coronary artery fistulas. We report the case of a 17-year-old man who presented with left anterior descending coronary artery-right ventricle fistula following pe...

Coronary-cameral fistula (CCF) is an anomalous connection between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber or major vessel, seen in about 0.8% of the cases undergoing coronary angiography. Most patients are asymptomatic and diagnosis is made incidentally during coronary angiography. We present an image case of CCF which was found incidentally during pre-liver transplantation work up.