title: Aborted sudden cardiac death associated with an anomalous right coronary artery.
abstract: Coronary artery anomalies arising from the opposite sinus of Valsalva and having an interarterial course between the aorta (AO) and pulmonary artery (PA) are the second most common cause of sudden cardiac death among young athletes, after hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The right coronary artery (RCA) originating from the AO above the left sinus of Valsalva (LSV) is an extremely rare anomaly. We report the first case of a RCA arising from the AO above the LSV that subsequently runs between the AO and the PA, discovered by a 64-slice multidetector coronary CT, in a patient who was successfully resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest while running in a marathon race.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Chile.
authors.forename: Rienzi A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Clinica Reñaca, Viña del Mar, Chile.
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Valdés
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D056352:Athletes; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology