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Case Reports
. 2015 Sep;30(5):727-9.
doi: 10.3904/kjim.2015.30.5.727. Epub 2015 Aug 27.

Type 4 dual left anterior descending coronary artery

Chan Joon Kim  1 , Hee Jeoung Yoon  1 , Sung Ho Her  1 , Jun Han Jeon  1 , Seung Min Jung  1 , Eun Hee Jang  1 , Seung Won Jin  1
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Case Reports

Type 4 dual left anterior descending coronary artery

Chan Joon Kim et al. Korean J Intern Med. 2015 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: Coronary artery anomaly; Left anterior descending artery.

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
A coronary angiogram showing the left anterior descending (LAD). (A) A short LAD (arrow) was found to terminate in the middle of the anterior interventricular sulcus after small second septal and diagonal branches. (B) An anomalous branch from the proximal right coronary artery (arrow) that terminated at the apex was detected.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
A coronary angiogram showing the left circumflex artery (LCX). (A) Critical stenosis was seen in the proximal and middle LCX (arrows). (B) Successful coronary intervention for the LCX was performed using two Pico stents and balloon angioplasty.
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