title: Adult patient with anomalous origin of anterior interventricular artery at main pulmonary artery.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Santa Helena Hospital do Coração, Cabo Frio, RJ - Brasil. haroldoferraz@cardiol.br
authors.forename: Haroldo Adans
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Ferraz
authors.forename: Leonardo Alves
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Batista
authors.forename: Fernando Mendes
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Sant'Anna
authors.forename: Leonardo da Costa
authors.initials: Lda C
authors.lastname: Buczynski
authors.forename: Marcelo Bastos
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Brito
authors.forename: Carlos Alberto Mussel
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Barrozo
mesh_terms: 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*