Giant proximal left anterior descending aneurysm causing multi-vessel myocardial ischaemia: the pressure is on-a case report.
Alexander RutherfordBadrinathan ChandrasekaranMario PetrouSteve RamcharitarPublished in: European heart journal. Case reports (2023)
This case highlights the complexity of coronary anomalies and importance of additional functional three-dimensional imaging on top of the static computational tomography coronary angiography analysis. Together, these two complimentary investigations qualitatively enabled the assessment of anomaly with surrounding structures such that the possibility of a mass effect on the LCx artery results in a positive stress test. Furthermore, this is a novel use of CT-FFR for coronary anomalies and it demonstrated good correlation of LAD territory ischaemia between CT-FFR and the stress ECHO.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery
- contrast enhanced
- coronary artery disease
- image quality
- dual energy
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance
- magnetic resonance imaging
- positron emission tomography
- stress induced
- left ventricular
- diffusion weighted imaging
- heat stress
- heart failure
- atrial fibrillation
- abdominal aortic aneurysm