title: Woman, 70 years of age, affected by ALCAPA without surgical repair.
abstract: Few cases of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery remain asymptomatic until adolescence, and it is very rare to find a patient with this disease reaching the age of 70 without having undergone any surgery. Up to now, there have been only three other cases of patients, more than 70 years of age, with this congenital heart effect described in medical literature. We report the clinical history and the cardiac morphofunctional findings of 12 years of follow-up after a very late diagnosis of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
authors.affiliation: University of Padua, Padua, Italy. lucia_db@libero.it
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: D Bianco
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bagato
authors.forename: Luciano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Daliento
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002317:Cardiovascular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016312:Treatment Refusal
chemical_list: D002317:Cardiovascular Agents