title: Bilateral coronary artery to pulmonary trunk fistulae detected by coronary angiography and evaluated by ECG-gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: report of two cases.
abstract: Coronary artery fistulae (CAF) are anomalies related to coronary artery abnormal termination. This is a very rare congenital malformation accounting for about 0.2-0.4% of congenital cardiac anomalies, but in some patients it can be haemodynamically important. Single-photon emission computed tomography or positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using radioactive agents is widely used in clinical practice for cardiac ischaemia detection as a very sensitive and non-invasive tool. We are going to present 2 patients with bilateral CAFs to the pulmonary trunk without signs of the rest or stress ischaemia in MPI.
authors.affiliation: Chair and Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Poland; Chair and Department of Human Anatomy, Medical University of Lublin, Poland. marcin.pachowicz.md@gmail.com.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pachowicz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Drozd
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authors.lastname: Bełz
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authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maciejewski
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authors.lastname: Chrapko