Hyper-dominance of the left anterior descending artery—a large territory

Coronary artery anomalies are rare and a potential cause of significant morbidity and mortality. A hyper-dominant left anterior descending artery is extremely rare with only 17 cases reported in the literature. Occlusion of a hyper-dominant left anterior descending artery can cause a massive myocard...

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Autores principales: Sen, Gautam, Veitch, Alice, Sinha, Manas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33614115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200069
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description Coronary artery anomalies are rare and a potential cause of significant morbidity and mortality. A hyper-dominant left anterior descending artery is extremely rare with only 17 cases reported in the literature. Occlusion of a hyper-dominant left anterior descending artery can cause a massive myocardial infarction affecting a large myocardial territory and therefore clinicians should be aware of its importance.
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spelling pubmed-78691282021-02-19 Hyper-dominance of the left anterior descending artery—a large territory Sen, Gautam Veitch, Alice Sinha, Manas BJR Case Rep Case Report Coronary artery anomalies are rare and a potential cause of significant morbidity and mortality. A hyper-dominant left anterior descending artery is extremely rare with only 17 cases reported in the literature. Occlusion of a hyper-dominant left anterior descending artery can cause a massive myocardial infarction affecting a large myocardial territory and therefore clinicians should be aware of its importance. The British Institute of Radiology. 2020-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7869128/ /pubmed/33614115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200069 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Hyper-dominance of the left anterior descending artery—a large territory
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33614115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200069
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