title: Congenital circumflex coronary artery fistula with drainage into the left ventricle.
abstract: Congenital coronary fistula is a rare heart defect, which consists of a communication between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber of coronary vessel. Most such fistulae drain into a right heart chamber or into the pulmonary artery. Congenital left coronary artery-left ventricle fistula is even more uncommon. In a search of the literature, we were able to find only 15 other cases of congenital left coronary artery-left ventricle fistula. We describe here the clinical picture of a patient with left circumflex coronary artery draining into the left ventricle, and the successful surgical repair of the lesion. As far as we know, such a case has never before been reported in detail.
authors.affiliation: Instituto do Coração, Santa Casa de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Teno
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Bestetti
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zanardi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ceccon
authors.forename: O T
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Castilho
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005402:Fistula / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography