2009
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.08.2008.0772
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Congenital absence of left circumflex artery with a dominant right coronary artery

Abstract: Case 1: a 40-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with progressively worsening post myocardial infarction angina. Cardiac catheterisation was performed, which showed total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and the left circumflex artery (LCX) was not visualised. The right coronary artery (RCA) was a large artery supplying the left ventricular inferior and posterolateral walls and filling the LAD artery in retrograde. The patient was referred for coronary artery bypass grafting. Perope… Show more

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“…Most CAA are discovered as incidental findings during coronary angiographic study or at autopsy with incidence rate of 0.64% to 1.3% reported in the literature [ 4 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Most CAA are discovered as incidental findings during coronary angiographic study or at autopsy with incidence rate of 0.64% to 1.3% reported in the literature [ 4 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Yamanaka and Hobbs described 126.595 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization from 1960 to 1988 [ 5 ]. Separate origins of the LAD and LCX arteries from the left sinus of Valsalva were the most common anomaly, occurring in about 0.41% of the patients studied [ 4 ]. Absence of the LCX artery is a very rare congenital anomaly of the coronary circulation in which the artery fails to develop in the left atrioventricular groove, with a few cases reported in the literature [ 4 , 6 ], and a frequency of only 0.003% according to those authors [ 5 ].…”
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“…However, complete absence of the LCX is an extremely rare occurrence, with a reported incidence of only 0.003% [ 1 ]. Among the few reported cases, imaging with either catheter angiography or computed tomography coronary angiography has consistently revealed the presence of a super-dominant right coronary artery (RCA) and enlarged diagonal branches from the left anterior descending artery (LAD) to supply the lateral wall of the left ventricle [ 3 , 4 ].…”
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confidence: 99%