title: Non-invasive diagnosis of a congenital coronary artery fistula.
abstract: This report describes a large congenital coronary artery fistula of the left circumflex artery draining into the coronary sinus in a 46 year old woman. The fistula was initially diagnosed by cross-sectional and transesopha-geal echocardiography using multiplane probe. Additionally, the entire course of the fistula was visualised in electron beam tomography. Angiography confirmed echocardiographic and tomographic findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brandt-Pohlmann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Achenbach
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pougratz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Moshage
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wortmann
mesh_terms: D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods