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Serendipitous Discovery of a Right Coronary Artery to Right Pulmonary Artery Fistula by Transesophageal Echocardiogram
Author(s) -
Wayangankar Siddharth A.,
Payne Joshua,
Po Sunny,
Sivaram Chittur A.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.12070
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , transesophageal echocardiogram , right coronary artery , right pulmonary artery , pulmonary artery , cardiology , magnetic resonance imaging , angiography , fistula , artery , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , catheter , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction
Mini‐Abstract Although computed tomography, magnetic resonance angiography, and catheter‐based angiography have been preferred for diagnosis and management of coronary artery fistulae ( CAF ), transesophageal echocardiogram ( TEE ) may play an important supplementary role in diagnosis and management of patients, where use of the afore‐mentioned modalities is limited (renal dysfunction, pacemaker, severe anaphylaxis to contrast agents). We present an imaging vignette depicting a serendipitous discovery of right CAF draining into right pulmonary artery via TEE .