GIANT CONGENITAL CORONARY-ARTERY FISTULA TO LEFT SUPERIOR VENA-CAVA AND RIGHT ATRIUM WITH COMPRESSION OF LEFT PULMONARY VEIN SIMULATING COR-TRIATRIATUM - DIAGNOSTIC-VALUE OF MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING

Citation
U. Aydogan et al., GIANT CONGENITAL CORONARY-ARTERY FISTULA TO LEFT SUPERIOR VENA-CAVA AND RIGHT ATRIUM WITH COMPRESSION OF LEFT PULMONARY VEIN SIMULATING COR-TRIATRIATUM - DIAGNOSTIC-VALUE OF MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING, European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery, 8(2), 1994, pp. 97-99
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
ISSN journal
10107940
Volume
8
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
97 - 99
Database
ISI
SICI code
1010-7940(1994)8:2<97:GCCFTL>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
A 3-year-old girl with a continuous murmur on auscultation was found t o have left coronary artery to right atrial fistula simulating cor tri atriatum sinister on echocardiography. Coronary angiography of the pat ient was also insufficient to clarify the exact pathologic anatomy. Ma gnetic resonance imaging showed that the main drainage of the aneurysm al coronary artery was to the left superior vena cava, resulting in a diffuse arteriovenous fistula in the lower lobe of the left lung by co mpressing its pulmonary vein.