<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Coronary artery anomalies represent a heterogeneous group of congenital diseases with various clinical presentations. Over time, the subject of coronary anomalies has been constantly changing in terms of definition, morphology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and treatment. We present the case of a male patient, aged 53, with coronary artery disease and a medical history of high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, who had undergone a coronary computed tomography angiography during the one-year follow-up after a percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent implantation for a critical stenosis in the middle segment of the left anterior descending artery. Axial images revealed a separate origin of the left anterior descending and circumflex arteries from the left aortic coronary sinus, with the absence of the left main coronary artery.</p></abstract>

Coronary artery anomalies represent a heterogeneous group of congenital diseases with various clinical presentations. Over time, the subject of coronary anomalies has been constantly changing in terms of definition, morphology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and treatment. We present the case of a male patient, aged 53, with coronary artery disease and a medical history of high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, who had undergone a coronary computed tomography angiography during the one-year follow-up after a percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent implantation for a critical stenosis in the middle segment of the left anterior descending artery. Axial images revealed a separate origin of the left anterior descending and circumflex arteries from the left aortic coronary sinus, with the absence of the left main coronary artery.

Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease

Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine

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Coronary artery anomalies represent a heterogeneous group of congenital diseases with various clinical presentations. Over time, the subject of coronary...

Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease

Published Online: Jul 16, 2021

Page range: 123 - 125

Received: Sep 14, 2020

Accepted: Oct 02, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0028

Keywords
coronary artery anomalies, CCTA, angiography

© 2021 Cosmin Țolescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease

Published Online: Jul 16, 2021

Page range: 123 - 125

Received: Sep 14, 2020

Accepted: Oct 02, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0028

Keywordscoronary artery anomalies, CCTA, angiography

© 2021 Cosmin Țolescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
coronary artery anomalies, CCTA, angiography