Congenital coronary arteriovenous fistula presenting with syncope.
Previous reports of syncope in patients with coronary arteriovenous fistula (CAVF) have theorized that it occurs secondary to a coronary steal phenomenon. We present a case of syncope in a young woman with a CAVF and no anatomic substrate for coronary steal.
Braden
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Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216-4505, USA.
O'Neal
K R
KR
McMullan
M R
MR
Ebeid
M R
MR
D000293:Adolescent; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*