Congenital coronary artery fistulae: a rare cause of heart failure in adults

Coronary artery fistulae are uncommon, reported in 0.25% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Two patients with congenital coronary artery fistula and coronary artery disease who presented with symptoms of exacerbated congestive heart failure out of proportion to their atherosclerotic burden...

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Autores principales: Geller, Charles M, Dimitrova, Kamellia R, Hoffman, Darryl M, Tranbaugh, Robert F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-87
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author Geller, Charles M
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description Coronary artery fistulae are uncommon, reported in 0.25% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Two patients with congenital coronary artery fistula and coronary artery disease who presented with symptoms of exacerbated congestive heart failure out of proportion to their atherosclerotic burden were successfully treated by epicardial fistula ligation and coronary artery bypass grafting with marked improvement in functional status.
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spelling pubmed-40459542014-06-06 Congenital coronary artery fistulae: a rare cause of heart failure in adults Geller, Charles M Dimitrova, Kamellia R Hoffman, Darryl M Tranbaugh, Robert F J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Coronary artery fistulae are uncommon, reported in 0.25% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Two patients with congenital coronary artery fistula and coronary artery disease who presented with symptoms of exacerbated congestive heart failure out of proportion to their atherosclerotic burden were successfully treated by epicardial fistula ligation and coronary artery bypass grafting with marked improvement in functional status. BioMed Central 2014-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4045954/ /pubmed/24886594 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-87 Text en Copyright © 2014 Geller et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Congenital coronary artery fistulae: a rare cause of heart failure in adults
title_sort congenital coronary artery fistulae: a rare cause of heart failure in adults
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