title: Left coronary artery fistula identified by color Doppler flow imaging.
abstract: Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is an abnormal communication between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber, great vessel, or other vascular structures. The presence of the fistula is usually identified by angiography. In this paper, the diagnosis of left coronary artery-right ventricle fistula was made by color Doppler before angiography? and it was confirmed by surgery. Color Doppler flow imaging is a non-invasive method which can reveal the proximal dilatation, the course and the draining site of CAF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Echocardiography, Xiehe Hospital, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y B
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Deng
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005402:Fistula / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male