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Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery – an unusual case

Anomalies of the coronary arteries are rare but are an important cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes. Sudden cardiac arrest has been reported in patients with congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries. We present a rare case of sudden cardiac arrest caused by anomalous left main cor...

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Autores principales: Abbas, U, Cossor, W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Images in Paediatric Cardiology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30886635
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description Anomalies of the coronary arteries are rare but are an important cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes. Sudden cardiac arrest has been reported in patients with congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries. We present a rare case of sudden cardiac arrest caused by anomalous left main coronary artery originating high from the posterior aspect of left sinus of Valsalva with intramural retroaortic segment, associated with bicuspid aortic valve.
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spelling pubmed-63605012019-03-18 Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery – an unusual case Abbas, U Cossor, W Images Paediatr Cardiol Case Report Anomalies of the coronary arteries are rare but are an important cause of sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes. Sudden cardiac arrest has been reported in patients with congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries. We present a rare case of sudden cardiac arrest caused by anomalous left main coronary artery originating high from the posterior aspect of left sinus of Valsalva with intramural retroaortic segment, associated with bicuspid aortic valve. Images in Paediatric Cardiology 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6360501/ /pubmed/30886635 Text en © 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 Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery – an unusual case
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title_fullStr Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery – an unusual case
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title_short Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery – an unusual case
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