The caveats in the diagnosis of anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA)

Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is an infrequent, well described, but important anomaly of the coronary origin. Early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment of the disease can be life saving. However, there are several potential sources of error in the seemin...

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Autores principales: Varghese, MJ, Kothari, SS
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368564
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description Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is an infrequent, well described, but important anomaly of the coronary origin. Early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment of the disease can be life saving. However, there are several potential sources of error in the seemingly simple stereotype diagnostic pattern. We report a case of ALCAPA and allude to some of the caveats in the diagnosis of this entity.
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spelling pubmed-32283332012-02-22 The caveats in the diagnosis of anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) Varghese, MJ Kothari, SS Images Paediatr Cardiol Case Report Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is an infrequent, well described, but important anomaly of the coronary origin. Early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment of the disease can be life saving. However, there are several potential sources of error in the seemingly simple stereotype diagnostic pattern. We report a case of ALCAPA and allude to some of the caveats in the diagnosis of this entity. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3228333/ /pubmed/22368564 Text en Copyright: © Images in Paediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title The caveats in the diagnosis of anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA)
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title_short The caveats in the diagnosis of anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368564
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