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Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a serious congenital malformation. Reports about asymptomatic, incidentally discovered ALCAPA in adults are scarce. We describe a patient with no known pre-existing cardiac condition admitted to our hospital with coro...

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Autores principales: Masood, Ghori, Rizwan, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Saudi Heart Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33299777
http://dx.doi.org/10.37616/2212-5043.1126
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description Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a serious congenital malformation. Reports about asymptomatic, incidentally discovered ALCAPA in adults are scarce. We describe a patient with no known pre-existing cardiac condition admitted to our hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and was incidentally found to have ALCAPA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of incidentally discovered ALCAPA in a COVID-19 patient and highlights the importance of appropriate investigation of the coronary status by Multidetector Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography (MDCCTA) in individuals with asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction. The presentation of this case, discussion and literature review serves to iterate the necessity of appropriately investigating patients with asymptomatic LV dysfunction.
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spelling pubmed-77214452020-12-08 Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise Masood, Ghori Rizwan, Ahmed J Saudi Heart Assoc Case Report Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a serious congenital malformation. Reports about asymptomatic, incidentally discovered ALCAPA in adults are scarce. We describe a patient with no known pre-existing cardiac condition admitted to our hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and was incidentally found to have ALCAPA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of incidentally discovered ALCAPA in a COVID-19 patient and highlights the importance of appropriate investigation of the coronary status by Multidetector Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography (MDCCTA) in individuals with asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction. The presentation of this case, discussion and literature review serves to iterate the necessity of appropriately investigating patients with asymptomatic LV dysfunction. Saudi Heart Association 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7721445/ /pubmed/33299777 http://dx.doi.org/10.37616/2212-5043.1126 Text en © 2020 Saudi Heart Association This is an open access article under the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise
title_full Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise
title_fullStr Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise
title_full_unstemmed Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise
title_short Incidental Discovery of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Arising from the Pulmonary Artery in a Coronavirus Disease-2019 Patient: A Blessing in Disguise
title_sort incidental discovery of anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery in a coronavirus disease-2019 patient: a blessing in disguise
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721445/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33299777
http://dx.doi.org/10.37616/2212-5043.1126
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