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. 2017 Jan;47(1):144-147.
doi: 10.4070/kcj.2016.0174. Epub 2016 Nov 28.

Surgical Repair for Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

Alwaleed Al-Dairy  1 , Yousef Rezaei  2 , Hamidreza Pouraliakbar  3 , Mohammad Mahdavi  4 , Parvin Bayati  4 , Maziar Gholampour-Dehaki  1
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Surgical Repair for Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

Alwaleed Al-Dairy et al. Korean Circ J. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ARCAPA) is a very rare congenital heart defect. Herein, we describe three cases of ARCAPA in an 8 months old, 18 months old, and 4 year old child. Two cases were incidentally diagnosed using a computed tomographic angiograph, and the other was incidentally diagnosed using a coronary angiograph. These cases underwent a reimplantation technique on diagnosis and resulting in positive clinical outcomes during the follow-up period which was a mean of 1.5 years.

Keywords: Cardiac surgical procedures; Congenital abnormalities; Coronary vessel anomalies; Electrocardiography.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Preoperative diagnostic images of the anomalous right coronary artery. (A) Computed tomographic angiography showing the anomalous right coronary artery originating from the pulmonary artery in coronal view, (B) sagittal view, (C) zoomed view, and (D) three-dimensional view. RCA: right coronary artery, AO: aorta, PUL: pulmonary artery, LM: left main coronary artery.
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