title: Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery in a 54-year-old woman presenting ventricular tachycardia from anteroseptal scar.
abstract: We report a 54-year-old female with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery who came to our hospital complaining of dizziness presumably due to ventricular tachycardia. Electrocardiography, echocardiography and myocardial scintigraphy were indistinguishable from anteroseptal myocardial infarction. Only coronary angiography enabled us to differentiate between atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease and anomalous origin of left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Tenri Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gen
mesh_terms: D002921:Cicatrix; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology*