CORONARY-ARTERY FISTULA TO BRONCHIAL ARTERY ON CONTRALATERAL SIDE OF CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
WANDWI WBC MITSUI N SUEDA T ORIHASHI K SUESHIRO M AZUMA K MATSUURA Y
Citation
Wbc. Wandwi et al., CORONARY-ARTERY FISTULA TO BRONCHIAL ARTERY ON CONTRALATERAL SIDE OF CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY - A CASE-REPORT, Angiology, 47(2), 1996, pp. 211-213
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Angiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033197
Volume
47
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
211 - 213
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3197(1996)47:2<211:CFTBAO>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Among coronary vessels anomalies is the rare coronary artery fistula. Myocardial insufficiency resulting from fistula steal phenomenon can n ot be clinically distinguished from that of coronary atherosclerosis, if these conditions coexists in the same patient. The authors present a case of extracardiac left coronary artery fistula connecting the cir cumflex branch and left bronchial artery, with inferior wall myocardia l insufficiency attributable to the right coronary artery atherosclero sis.