Adult presentation of ALCAPA: Echo and CT diagnosis

A healthy 20‐year‐old male presented with aborted sudden death. Both thoracic echocardiography and cardiac computed tomographic angiography demonstrated the characteristic findings of ALCAPA noting a dilated and tortuous right coronary artery, dilated coronary collateral arteries within the interven...

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Published in:Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2018-07, Vol.35 (7), p.1045-1048
Main Authors: Kerut, Edmund Kenneth, Kogos, Philip G., Anderson, Jason H., Turner, Michael, Ascuitto, Robert, Ross‐Ascuitto, Nancy, Said, Sameh M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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ALCAPA
sudden death
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Summary:A healthy 20‐year‐old male presented with aborted sudden death. Both thoracic echocardiography and cardiac computed tomographic angiography demonstrated the characteristic findings of ALCAPA noting a dilated and tortuous right coronary artery, dilated coronary collateral arteries within the interventricular septum or along the surface of the heart, and visualization of the left coronary artery origin from the posterior aspect of the main pulmonary artery. Both imaging modalities demonstrated all three characteristic findings of this rare coronary anomaly and served as complementary imaging studies for surgical correction.
ISSN:0742-2822
1540-8175
DOI:10.1111/echo.13807