ALCAPA syndrome: An example of chronic myocardial hypoperfusion?
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Late presentation of ALCAPA syndrome in an elderly Asian lady.
Coronary artery anomalies are often discovered incidentally during cardiac catheterization or computed tomography coronary angiography and may involve the affected coronary artery origin and its course. Coronary artery anomalies are associated with congenital heart disease. The affected coronary arteries may have an unusual high take off origin, origin from contralateral or non-coronary sinus, ...
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pulmonary artery (PA), receiving collaterals from a dilated RCA (Figure, B and D). Anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA syndrome) is uncommon, although the true incidence may be underestimated because of the difficulties in diagnosing the condition in the absence of symptoms in adults. The diagnosis has been based on coronary angiography findings, but now MDC...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(94)90767-6