Single coronary artery arising from the right sinus of Valsalva (case report).
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.
Mavi
Ayfer
A
Dept. of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey. mavi@gantep.edu.tr
Serçelik
Alper
A
Ayalp
Reşat
R
Bozkir
Gülhal
G
Batyraliev
Talantbek
T
Gümüşburun
Erdem
E
D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000473:pathology*