• Cardiology in the young · Apr 2009

    Case Reports

    Suspicion, diagnosis, and successful surgical treatment of anomalous origin of the anterior descending coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk.

    • Evren Semizel, Ozlem M Bostan, and Ergün Cil.
    • Cardiology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Uludag University, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey. evsem1@yahoo.co.uk
    • Cardiol Young. 2009 Apr 1; 19 (2): 220-2.

    AbstractAnomalous origin of the anterior descending coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk is very rare. We suspected such anomalous origin in a boy aged 2.5 years owing to the echocardiographic demonstration of mitral regurgitation and abnormal diastolic flow in the ventricular septum. The diagnosis was confirmed by angiography. The anomalous artery was successfully reimplanted into the aorta.

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