Open AccessA Rare Coronary Artery Anomaly: Double Left Anterior Descending Artery
Author(s) -
Güray Öncel,
Dilek Öncel
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of clinical imaging science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.279
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2156-7514
pISSN - 2156-5597
DOI - 10.4103/2156-7514.105150
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , artery , right coronary artery , ventricle , coronary artery anomaly , descending aorta , coronary angiography , multislice computed tomography , left coronary artery , coronary arteries , aorta , radiology , computed tomography , myocardial infarction
Double left anterior descending coronary artery arising from the left and right coronary arteries is one of the rarest of coronary anomalies. In this report, we present a case of double left anterior descending coronary artery with one originating from the left main stem and the second one originating from the same ostium with the right coronary artery, passing to the left side following an inter-arterial course between aorta and right ventricular outflow tract and spreading to the anterior wall of the left ventricle. The diagnosis was made with multislice computed tomography angiography. To our knowledge, only a few such cases have been published in the literature so far