title: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the right coronary sinus.
abstract: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery (LCA) from the right coronary artery sinus is a rare congenital coronary anomaly. We report a case of a 48-year-old symptomatic man who was admitted to our clinic with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction and hypercholesterolemia. Coronary angiography was performed revealing anomalous left coronary artery from the right coronary artery sinus. In addition, stenosis of RCA and well developed stenotic diagonal artery were detected with coronary angiography. We performed coronary by-pass with left internal mammarian artery to diagonal artery and vena saphena to right coronary artery (RCA). Both coronary angiography and intraoperative view should be evaluated well in patients with anomalous of the coronary artery.
authors.affiliation: Inonu University, Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Malatya, Turkey. drmccolak@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mehmet Cengiz
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Colak
authors.forename: Nevzat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Erdil
authors.forename: Olcay
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Disli
authors.forename: Ercan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kahraman
authors.forename: Bektas
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Battaloglu
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D054326:Coronary Sinus / Q000002:abnormalities*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged