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Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Trunk:
Author(s) -
VESELKA JOSEF,
KAUTZNER JOSEF
Publication year - 1994
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/j.1540-8175.1994.tb01378.x
Subject(s) - pulmonary trunk , cardiology , medicine , interventricular septum , right coronary artery , pulmonary artery , right pulmonary artery , trunk , coronary artery anomaly , color doppler , radiology , ultrasonography , coronary angiography , ventricle , ecology , myocardial infarction , biology
Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk is a rare congenital anomaly, which may be detected noninvasively by echocardiography. We report a case of definitive diagnosis of this anomaly using transesophageal echocardiography and Doppler color flow mapping in a 36‐year‐old woman. Of special interest is the fact that the most prominent echocardiographic feature was turbulent flow in the region of the interventricular septum streaming into the dilated RCA.