The case of a 22-year old male patient who presented with a congenital coronary arterial fistula from the right coronary artery to the right ventricle is described. The arterial fistula had led to an aneurysm of the right sinus of Valsalva and the proximal right coronary artery. The aneurysm was incised from the aorta and the fistula closed with a pericardial patch. The diameter of the aneurysm...

A 23-year-old man was hospitalized with the complaint of exertion dyspnea. Physical examination revealed a third degree diastolic murmur best heard at the left parasternal area. Electrocardiogram showed normal sinus rhythm. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed aneurysmatic dilatation of the left main coronary artery (CA) in addition to the large coronary cameral fistula between the left CA a...

Coronary artery aneurysms are noted in 0.15% to 4.9% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. Atherosclerosis accounts for 50% of coronary aneurysms in adults. We report a 64-year-old female with a huge right coronary artery aneurysm with fistula connecting the aneurysm with the pulmonary artery and a fistula connecting the proximal left anterior descending artery with the pulmonary artery....

BACKGROUND Coronary arteriovenous fistula is a rare congenital or acquired abnormal connection between a coronary artery and any of the great vessels or any of the heart chambers. Most of them are diagnosed during routine coronary angiography. CASE REPORT This case report illustrates a successful surgical ligating of multiple right coronary artery and circumflex artery fistulas to coronary si...

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Coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) are rare defects in the coronary circulation system that usually diagnosed incidentally with cardiac imaging. Although prognosis of is highly variable, complications to which they predispose patients ultimately determining factor. The authors describe a case 56-year-old male, smoker, hospitalised for worsening dyspnoea on progressively smaller efforts, context ac...

Saccular coronary artery aneurysm, associated with coronary artery fistula, is a very rare condition. A 48-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for the evaluation of an abnormal shadow on the left cardiac border from a chest X-ray film during regular medical health examination. A huge saccular aneurysm with organized thrombi in the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) and coron...

One of the primary forms of congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries is coronary artery fistula (CAF). It is defined as a direct communication between the coronary artery and any surrounding cardiac chamber or vascular structure, which bypasses the myocardial capillary bed. We present a newborn baby with a large coronary artery fistula connecting the left anterior descending (LAD) artery t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Described by Krause in 1865 (1), coronary artery fistula communicating with cardiac cavities, pulmonary artery, or coronary sinus is very rare. It represents 0.2% to 0.4% of congenital cardiopathies and 0.1% and 0.2% of the adult population undergoing coronary angiography (2). The objective of this report is to present the anesthetic management for surgical closure of ...

The preoperative assessment of patients with a coronary artery fistula requires exact angiographic evaluation of the coronary artery anatomy. A technique of transvenous balloon occlusion angiography of the aorta is described. This can be applied easily in infants with a persisting foramen ovale. Combination of this technique with the so-called "laid-back" aortogram gave excellent visualisation ...