Anomalies

Clinical Editor's Corner

What Should We Do With an Anomalous Coronary Artery (ALCA) With a Malignant Left Main Course in an Asymptomatic Patient?

05/07/2018

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

Michael J. Lim , MD;

John W. Hirshfeld Jr.;

Kirk N. Garratt , MD, MSc;

Christopher J. White , DO, MD;

George W. Vetrovec , MD;

Jeannie Yu , MD;

Andrew Doorey ;

Pinak Bipin Shah ;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Paul S. Teirstein , MD, FACC;

William M. Suh , MD;

David E. Kandzari , MD;

Dr. Paul Teirstein, Chief of Cardiology, at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, asked our cath lab experts for their opinions on what to do with an asymptomatic executive who had a screening CTA (Figure 1).

Dr. Paul Teirstein, Chief of...

05/07/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Myocardial Bridging in the Setting of Dilated Myocardiopathy

04/04/2018

Virginia Perez-Andreu , MD, PhD;

Michael Tedla , MD;

Hossein Akhondi , MD, FACP;

Dominic Robine , DO, FACC;

Ali R. Rahimi , MD, FACP, AGSF;

Navid Kazemi , MD, FACC;

Myocardial bridge (MB) is a congenital anatomic variant that occurs when one of the coronary arteries tunnels through the myocardium instead of having a normal epicardial course.1

Myocardial bridge (MB) is a...

04/04/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Septal Sobriety: Aborted Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Diffuse Coronary-Cameral Fistulae

03/03/2016

Paul Poommipanit , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Arun Kumar Nagabandi , MBBS;

Loren Garrison Morgan , MD;

The extravasation of echocontrast into this patient’s ventricles after selective engagement of the septal perforators was indicative of severe, diffuse coronary-cameral fistulae.

The extravasation of...

03/03/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

A Rare Case of a Congenital Single Coronary Artery: Right Coronary Artery Originating From the Distal Left Circumflex Artery

11/04/2013

Florian Blaschke , MD;

Elke Zimmermann , MD;

Johannes Greupner , MD;

Dietlind Zohlnhoefer , MD;

Florian Krackhardt , MD;

Wilhelm Haverkamp , MD;

Mattias Roser , MD;

The authors present a case of a 59-year-old female who had retrosternal pain with radiation to the left arm. Imaging confirmed the absence of the right coronary artery and a left circumflex artery supplying the right coronary artery territory.

The authors present a case of a...

11/04/2013

Vascular Disease Management

Case Report

Modified 'Trap Door' Approach for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Complicated by Subclavian Artery Aneurysm

04/03/2013

Elias Kfoury , MD;

The authors present a case of a 46-year-old male with left arterial thoracic outlet syndrome and left subclavian artery aneurysm treated with a modified “trap door” approach.

The authors present a case of a...

04/03/2013

Vascular Disease Management