Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

Flamm, Major M. D.; Stinson, Edward B.; Hultgren, Herbert N.; Shumway, Norman E.; Hancock, E. William

doi:10.1161/01.cir.38.1.113

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“…11,13,14 This disorder may go undetected until a previously well adult experiences cardiac failure, chest pain, effort syncope, or sudden death. 5,7,15 Two-dimensional echocardiography plays an important role in the diagnosis of the anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk by establishing the normal origins of the left and right coronaries coming off the aortic sinuses. It can also identify the site of entry of an anomalous left coronary artery into the pulmonary trunk.…”

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Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

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Glass

2002

Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography

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Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk (Bland-Garland-White syndrome) is an important congenital malformation of the coronary circulation.The anomaly occurs in ap proximately 1 in 300,000 live births.Only 10% to 15% of affected infants will reach adulthood.The usual clinical presentation is that of the infant who sustains a myocardial infarction and develops congestive heart failure.Older children or adults can present with a continuous murmur and/or mitral regurgitation resulting from dysfunction of the ischemic papillary muscle.In some cases, the coronary anomaly is unsuspected until a previously well adolescent or adult experiences chest pain, heart failure, or sudden death.

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Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

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Glass

2002

Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography

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“…Introduction Flamm et al [1968] observed the anomalous origin of a left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. Smith [1950] described a single coronary artery in a review.…”

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Anomalous Course and Branches of Human Coronary Arteries

Kumar

1989

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132 hearts obtained from cadavers were dissected in order to study anomalies in the course and branches of human coronary arteries. Only in 1 heart was a deviation of the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery taking a course inferior to the coronary sulcus observed. The right coronary artery travelled the entire length of the coronary sulcus on the back of the heart and gave both a posterior ventricular and a collateral branch. Circumflex branches of the right and left coronary arteries did not anastomose.

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