title: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
abstract: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCA-PA) is a rare form of congenital heart disease. In this report, three cases with this anomaly are described; two patients presented in infancy with heart failure from myocardial ischemia and infarction, while the third was asymptomatic and ALCA-PA was diagnosed during evaluation of a residual murmur after surgery for associated cardiac defects (ventricular septal defect and patent arterial duct). All three cases underwent aorto-pulmonary tunnel repair (Tukeuchi procedure), and to our knowledge two of them are the first infantile cases reported in Turkey.
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University Institute of Cardiology.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarioğlu
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Saltik
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sağin-Saylam
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Batmaz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sarioğlu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aytaç
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography