Genesis of a coronary-cameral fistula.
Benoy Nalin ShahAusami AbbasPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2021)
Coronary artery fistulae are a rare congenital abnormality. If such fistulae drain directly into a cardiac chamber, they are termed coronary-cameral fistulae. Such fistulae are usually congenital in origin or, occasionally, may arise as an iatrogenic complication of a cardiac procedure such as cardiac catheterization or surgery. We present a highly unusual case in which a patient presented to cardiac services on two occasions-nearly a decade apart-and was found to have coronary aneurysms initially, the largest of which expanded further and into the right atrium, thus creating a coronary-cameral fistula.
Keyphrases
- coronary artery
- pulmonary artery
- coronary artery disease
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- heart failure
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- case report
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- pulmonary embolism
- acute coronary syndrome
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