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Genesis of a coronary‐cameral fistula
Author(s) -
Shah Benoy Nalin,
Abbas Ausami
Publication year - 2021
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.15086
Subject(s) - medicine , fistula , cardiac catheterization , complication , cardiology , cardiac surgery , artery , surgery
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.

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