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Single Coronary Artery as a Rare Developmental Variant in Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography

Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a non-invasive method for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. In addition to the assessment of possible stenoses in the coronary arteries, this method also allows the assessment of other abnormalities of coronary and extracoronary heart structu...

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Autores principales: Gać, Paweł, Trejtowicz-Sutor, Agnieszka, Poręba, Rafał
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10136988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189470
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081369
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author Gać, Paweł
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description Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a non-invasive method for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. In addition to the assessment of possible stenoses in the coronary arteries, this method also allows the assessment of other abnormalities of coronary and extracoronary heart structures. CCTA is the optimal method for assessing the relationship of coronary arteries to other anatomical structures; thus, it is used as a method of diagnosing developmental variants of coronary circulation. We present images of a single left coronary artery in a 384-slice CCTA in a 69-year-old Caucasian female patient with non-specific chest pain and low intermediate cardiovascular risk as an example of a rare developmental coronary variant. In conclusion, the importance of CCTA as a method of diagnosing developmental variations of the heart and vessels should be emphasized.
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spelling pubmed-101369882023-04-28 Single Coronary Artery as a Rare Developmental Variant in Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography Gać, Paweł Trejtowicz-Sutor, Agnieszka Poręba, Rafał Diagnostics (Basel) Interesting Images Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a non-invasive method for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. In addition to the assessment of possible stenoses in the coronary arteries, this method also allows the assessment of other abnormalities of coronary and extracoronary heart structures. CCTA is the optimal method for assessing the relationship of coronary arteries to other anatomical structures; thus, it is used as a method of diagnosing developmental variants of coronary circulation. We present images of a single left coronary artery in a 384-slice CCTA in a 69-year-old Caucasian female patient with non-specific chest pain and low intermediate cardiovascular risk as an example of a rare developmental coronary variant. In conclusion, the importance of CCTA as a method of diagnosing developmental variations of the heart and vessels should be emphasized. MDPI 2023-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10136988/ /pubmed/37189470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081369 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Single Coronary Artery as a Rare Developmental Variant in Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography
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title_short Single Coronary Artery as a Rare Developmental Variant in Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography
title_sort single coronary artery as a rare developmental variant in cardiac computed tomography angiography
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10136988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189470
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081369
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