Life saved and a lesson learned-anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery in pregnancy

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery constitutes 0.5% of all CHD (Boutsikou M, Shore D, Li W, et al, Int J Cardiol 261: 49–53, 2018). Fifteen percent survive into adulthood undiagnosed and 90% present with sudden death (Yau JM, Singh R, Halpern EJ, Fischman D, Clin Card...

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Published in:Cardiology in the young 2022-04, Vol.32 (4), p.662-664
Main Authors: Bhimani, Salima A., Najm, Hani K., Komarlu, Rukmini
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Coronary artery
Coronary Vessel Anomalies - diagnosis
Coronary vessels
Coronary Vessels - diagnostic imaging
Echocardiography and Scans
Female
Heart Arrest - etiology
Humans
Pregnancy
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary artery
Pulmonary Artery - abnormalities
Pulmonary Artery - diagnostic imaging
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Summary:Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery constitutes 0.5% of all CHD (Boutsikou M, Shore D, Li W, et al, Int J Cardiol 261: 49–53, 2018). Fifteen percent survive into adulthood undiagnosed and 90% present with sudden death (Yau JM, Singh R, Halpern EJ, Fischman D, Clin Cardiol 34: 204–210, 2011; Alexi-Meskishvili V, Berger F, Weng Y, Lange PE, Hetzer R, J Card Surg 10: 309–315, 1995). We describe an enigmatic case of a 29-year-old female who presented after an aborted cardiac arrest and was diagnosed with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery.
ISSN:1047-9511
1467-1107
DOI:10.1017/S1047951121003462