The diagnosis of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery by echocardiography: Case report.
The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is a rare congenital heart disease that affects 1 of 300,000 live births. We present the case of an 18-year-old female presenting with chest pain and dyspnea after vigorous exercise, and whose two-dimensional echocardiogram initially displayed a "normal connection" between the left coronary artery with the aortic sinus of Valsalva. Using a systematic diagnostic echocardiography approach, we rightfully diagnosed it as anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 610041, Chengdu, China.
He
H
Huang
Ju-qian
JQ
Zhang
Chen
C
Li
Li
L
Rao
Yuan
Y
Feng
Ke
K
Dian
Hong
H
Tang
D000293:Adolescent; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome