title: [Coronary artery-cardiac fistulas. Review of the literature. Two accidentally discovered cases].
abstract: We report two cases of coronary artery fistula discovered accidentally during coronary-angiography. One case between the left anterior descending and the pulmonary artery and another case between the circumflex and the left ventricule. Both cases were associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. There was a spontaneous closure of the fistula in the first case. A brief review of the literature is presented because this anomaly is being discovered frequently because of the possibility of diagnosis with transesophageal echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Service de Cardiologie, Clinique D' Rizk, Beyrouth, Liban.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jazra
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jahjah
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tarcha
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ghanem
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chammas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001159:Arterio-Arterial Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*
vernacular_title: Les fistules coronaro-cardiaques. Revue de la littérature. A propos de deux cas de découverte fortuite.