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Cardiology in the young · Dec 2009
Case ReportsStenosis of the main stem of the left coronary artery in a teenager with Takayasu's arteritis.
- Srikrishna Modugula Reddy and Srinivas Pallikala Reddy.
- Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Institute for Cardiac Treatment and Research, Southern Railway Hospital, Chennai, India. srikrishna8@gmail.com
- Cardiol Young. 2009 Dec 1; 19 (6): 638-40.
AbstractCoronary arterial involvement is rare in Takayasu's arteritis. We describe successful coronary arterial bypass grafting in a 15 year teenager with Takayasu's arteritis and unstable angina because of stenosis of the main stem of the left coronary artery.
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