title: Young athlete with sudden cardiac arrest treated with therapeutic hypothermia.
abstract: Reported herein is a coronary anomaly that occurred in a young adolescent athlete who presented with cardiopulmonary arrest. The patient was resuscitated and treated with therapeutic hypothermia. The patient had no associated neurological complications at follow up. Enhanced computed tomography of the heart indicated an anomalous left main coronary artery originating from the right coronary sinus and coursing between the aorta and the pulmonary artery. The patient underwent surgical intervention with coronary artery bypass grafting to prevent symptom recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Yokohama Municipal Citizen's Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: Hideshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aoyagi
authors.forename: Kaoru
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okishige
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D056352:Athletes; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: cardiac arrest; coronary artery anomaly; therapeutic hypothermia