title: Diffuse plexus-like coronary artery-left ventricular fistulae leading to coronary steal syndrome: a pattern of anomalous coronary microvascularization.
abstract: Coronary artery fistulae that drain into the left ventricle are extremely rare, and even fewer cases of fistulae involving all three of the coronary arteries have so far been reported. We herein report a 64-year-old woman with a unique pattern of coronary artery-left ventricular fistulae that involved all three of the coronary arteries. The multiple fistulae presented in a diffuse plexus-like arrangement. The fistulae resulted in a diastolic volume overload of the left ventricle (left-to-left shunt), as well as "coronary steal" with the shunting of blood away from the myocardium since the fistulae represented the path of least resistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Huai-Ren
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Jen-Che
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Ji-Hung
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shoei K Stephen
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008833:Microcirculation; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography