title: Single coronary artery arising from the right sinus of Valsalva (case report).
abstract: A single coronary artery is a rare congenital anomaly of the coronary arteries where only one coronary artery arises from the aortic trunk by a single coronary ostium, supplying the entire heart. We report a case of a 70 years-old man with mitral valvular insufficiency and atherosclerotic right and left circumflex coronary arteries, in whom coronary angiography showed a single coronary artery arising from a single ostium in the right sinus of Valsalva (R-II-B subtype) and transverse trunk coursed between aorta and pulmonary artery. The clinical significance and subtype of the single coronary artery are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey. mavi@gantep.edu.tr
authors.forename: Ayfer
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mavi
authors.forename: Alper
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serçelik
authors.forename: Reşat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ayalp
authors.forename: Gülhal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bozkir
authors.forename: Talantbek
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Batyraliev
authors.forename: Erdem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gümüşburun
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000473:pathology*