title: Transesophageal echocardiographic demonstration of right coronary artery-to-coronary sinus fistula in a heart transplant recipient.
abstract: A fistula between the distal right coronary artery and coronary sinus was detected by transesophageal echocardiography in a heart transplant recipient. Cineangiograms confirmed this finding to be new since the time of angiography one year earlier. Although coronary artery-to-right ventricular fistulas are not an uncommon complication of endomyocardial biopsy, the echocardiographic findings of a fistula involving the coronary sinus have not been previously described.
authors.affiliation: Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Lowry
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Kleiman
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Zoghbi
mesh_terms: D001158:Arteries; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged