Nature Decides Survival

Abstract

A 76-year-old man with congenitally corrected transposition of great arteries (CCTGA) presented with acute inferior wall myocardial infarction and underwent primary angioplasty. Coronary anatomic variations and challenges are discussed. ( Level of Difficulty: Advanced. )

A Rare Cause of Angina

“…Previous reports have described many anatomic anomalies of the coronary arteries in patients with CCTGA because coronary anomalies can be associated with up to 45% of cases ( 5 ). There is most often a mirror-image distribution of the coronary arteries, which follow the corresponding ventricles.…”