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Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease Cover

Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease

Open Access
|Jul 2021

Abstract

Coronary artery anomalies represent a heterogeneous group of congenital diseases with various clinical presentations. Over time, the subject of coronary anomalies has been constantly changing in terms of definition, morphology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and treatment. We present the case of a male patient, aged 53, with coronary artery disease and a medical history of high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, who had undergone a coronary computed tomography angiography during the one-year follow-up after a percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent implantation for a critical stenosis in the middle segment of the left anterior descending artery. Axial images revealed a separate origin of the left anterior descending and circumflex arteries from the left aortic coronary sinus, with the absence of the left main coronary artery.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0028 | Journal eISSN: 2501-8132 | Journal ISSN: 2501-5974
Language: English
Page range: 123 - 125
Submitted on: Sep 14, 2020
Accepted on: Oct 2, 2020
Published on: Jul 16, 2021
Published by: Asociatia Transilvana de Terapie Transvasculara si Transplant KARDIOMED
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Cosmin Țolescu, Abigaela Rus, Monica Chitu, Mihaela Ratiu, Imre Benedek, published by Asociatia Transilvana de Terapie Transvasculara si Transplant KARDIOMED
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