title: Coronary stent implantation in patients with a single coronary artery--a report of 3 cases.
abstract: An isolated single coronary artery is a rare congenital anomaly and a cause of cardiac ischemia, congestive heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. Reported here are 3 cases of single coronary artery with acute myocardial infarction in which coronary stenting was performed. Also reported are the coronary blood flow patterns of the right coronary artery arising from the single left coronary artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hakodate Goryokaku Hospital, Goryokaku-cho 38-3, Hakodate 040-8611, Japan. sasao2000@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Hisataka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sasao
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Akita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oimatsu
authors.forename: Takehito
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents