Transesophageal three-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of left main coronary artery fistula.
We describe a patient with a left main coronary artery fistula with an opening at the superior vena cava-right atrial junction in whom three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography permitted more accurate assessment of the shape and size of the communication site than two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography.
Nekkanti
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University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station SW/S102, 619 South 19th Street, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Nanda
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Angsingkar
K G
KG
Mukhtar
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O
D000328:Adult; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans