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Review
. 1993;20(4):304-6.

Congenital circumflex coronary artery fistula with drainage into the left ventricle

L A Teno  1 , J L Santos, R B Bestetti, A M Zanardi, C Ceccon, O T Castilho
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Congenital circumflex coronary artery fistula with drainage into the left ventricle

L A Teno et al. Tex Heart Inst J. 1993.
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Abstract

Congenital coronary fistula is a rare heart defect, which consists of a communication between a coronary artery and a cardiac chamber of coronary vessel. Most such fistulae drain into a right heart chamber or into the pulmonary artery. Congenital left coronary artery-left ventricle fistula is even more uncommon. In a search of the literature, we were able to find only 15 other cases of congenital left coronary artery-left ventricle fistula. We describe here the clinical picture of a patient with left circumflex coronary artery draining into the left ventricle, and the successful surgical repair of the lesion. As far as we know, such a case has never before been reported in detail.

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