Absence of the Left Main Coronary Artery: MDCT Coronary Angiographic Imaging

YILMAZ ÇANKAYA B., KANTARCI A., YALÇIN A., Durur-Karakaya A., Yuce I.

EURASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, cilt.41, sa.1, ss.56-58, 2009 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Dergi Adı: EURASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.56-58
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Absent Left Main Coronary Artery, Coronary variation, MDCT
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Absent left main coronary artery (LMCA) is a rare congenital cardiac malformation. We present a case report of a 65-year-old woman with anomalous origin of the left anterior descending (LAD) and circumflex (LCx) artery separated from the left sinus of Valsalva that was diagnosed by multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography. Our case indicates that MDCT plays an important role in the diagnosis of some rare coronary anomalies.