Adult patient with anomalous origin of anterior interventricular artery at main pulmonary artery.
From all congenital cardiopathies, anomalous origin of anterior interventricular artery occurs once per 300,0000 live births, reporting high mortality in the first year after birth. However, if good collateral circulation is available for the artery related to the abnormality, the patient may be kept asymptomatic until mature age. This is the report on a rare case of a 43-year-old patient who was oligosymptomatic, with normal ventricular function in this pathology presentation. The patient was submitted to surgical treatment with no extracorporeal circulation.
Ferraz
Haroldo Adans
HA
Santa Helena Hospital do Coração, Cabo Frio, RJ - Brasil. haroldoferraz@cardiol.br
Batista
Leonardo Alves
LA
Sant'Anna
Fernando Mendes
FM
Buczynski
Leonardo da Costa
Lda C
Brito
Marcelo Bastos
MB
Barrozo
Carlos Alberto Mussel
CA
D000328:Adult; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000601:surgery; D002932:Cineangiography / Q000379:methods; D003097:Collateral Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000601:surgery; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*