MDCT detection of double right coronary artery arising from a single ostium in the right sinus of Valsalva: report of 2 cases.
Double right coronary artery arising from a single ostium in the right sinus of Valsalva is an extremely rare coronary artery variation. Differentiating this variation from high take off of a large right ventricular branch is often difficult in conventional coronary angiography. In two cases, multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) identified double right coronary artery. MDCT allows three-dimensional comprehension of the coronary artery anatomy and it is thought to be useful to distinguish this variation from a large right ventricular branch.
Kunimasa
Taeko
T
Sato
Yuichi
Y
Ichikawa
Makoto
M
Ito
Shingo
S
Takagi
Takuro
T
Lee
Tetsuo
T
Saeki
Fumihiko
F
Saito
Satoshi
S
Moroi
Masao
M
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000368:Aged; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed