Open AccessAngiographic enigma: A single coronary artery with the right coronary artery originating from the distal left circumflex artery
Author(s) -
Satyajit Singh,
Sanat Kumar Sahoo,
Mahendra Prasad Tripathy,
Giridhari Jena
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
heart views
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5123
pISSN - 1995-705X
DOI - 10.4103/1995-705x.164465
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , right coronary artery , circumflex , coronary artery anomaly , artery , asymptomatic , left coronary artery , sinus (botany) , coronary angiography , myocardial infarction , botany , biology , genus
An isolated single coronary artery (SCA) is a rare anomaly. A SCA originating from the left sinus of Valsalva is even rarer than one arising from the right. Most patients with a congenital coronary artery anomaly are asymptomatic. Herein, we report an extremely uncommon variant, where the right coronary artery arose from the distal segment of the left circumflex artery with slow coronary flow leading to myocardial ischemia.