An unusual combination of an anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) and a right coronary artery system with two separate ostia from the aorta in an adult.
We describe a patient with an infrequent combination of variants in both the right and the left coronary arterial ostia, namely a combination of two separate right coronary artery (RCA) ostia from the aorta, and an anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA). To our knowledge, such a combination has not been previously reported. Based on published statistics for individual variants, such a combination is expected to occur approximately once for every 500,000 to one million live births. ALCAPA and dual RCA anatomy was characterized in our patient by echocardiography, conventional angiography, and multidetector computed tomography before and after Takeuchi repair.
Kats
Yuliya
Y
Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Solanki
Pallavi
P
Waller
Alfonso H
AH
Maldjian
Pierre D
PD
Hamirani
Kamran
K
Tsai
Steve C
SC
Dhruva
Vivek
V
Klapholz
Marc
M
Saric
Muhamed
M
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*