Short Chronic Total Occlusion Stump Creating an Optical Illusion of an Anomalous Coronary Artery: A Pseudo Anomaly
Coronary artery anomalies are often asymptomatic and detected incidentally during coronary angiography, cardiac surgery, or autopsy. However, sometimes in chronic total occlusion, the distal part of a vessel is well collateralized from the contralateral vessel that it appears almost as an anomalous...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.j-pcs.org/article.asp?issn=2395-5414;year=2023;volume=9;issue=1;spage=76;epage=78;aulast=Sahu |
| Summary: | Coronary artery anomalies are often asymptomatic and detected incidentally during coronary angiography, cardiac surgery, or autopsy. However, sometimes in chronic total occlusion, the distal part of a vessel is well collateralized from the contralateral vessel that it appears almost as an anomalous coronary artery. Here, we discuss a rather interesting angiogram which at first instance, looked like a case of a dual left anterior descending (LAD) artery with anomalous origin of the LAD from the proximal right coronary artery, but after further evaluation appeared to be a case of an occluded LAD filling through Vieussens' arterial ring. |
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| ISSN: | 2395-5414 2454-2830 |