Angiographic evidence of coronary artery ectasia: our experience.
The purpose of this angiographic study was to make a review of patients with coronary artery ectasia (CAE) and to compare the average coronary artery diameters of proximal, middle and distal segments of the following three groups of coronary arteries: Group E (ectatic segments in patients with CAE and ischaemic heart disease), Group E-n (presumably normal segments in the same group of patients) and Group N (normal coronary arteries of control patients). It was found that distal segments of all three coronary arteries and the middle segment of the circumflex artery in Group E-n were significantly narrower than the corresponding segments in Group N (p = 0.001 or less than 0.05 respectively), which suggested the arteriosclerotic origin of both, CAE and distal coronary artery involvement.
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Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
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Cijan
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged