| Literature DB >> 26504443 |
Doreen DeFaria Yeh, Brian Ghoshhajra, Ignacio Inglessis-Azuaje, Thomas MacGillivray, Richard Liberthson, Ami B Bhatt.
Abstract
We report the case of a 62-year-old woman who presented with classic symptoms of stable angina. Cardiac images and catheterization results revealed absent pulmonary valve syndrome and compression of the left main coronary artery by a massively dilated pulmonary artery aneurysm. The patient's anginal symptoms were relieved after pulmonary arterioplasty. Others have described proximal left main coronary artery compression in the presence of a dilated and hypertensive pulmonary artery. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which a pulmonary artery aneurysm caused left main coronary insufficiency in the absence of pulmonary hypertension-a clinically important complication of congenital pulmonary valve-related pulmonary arteriopathy.Entities:
Keywords: Angina pectoris/etiology; coronary vessel anomalies/complications; heart defects, congenital/complications/diagnosis/radiography; heart valves/abnormalities; pulmonary artery/abnormalities/pathology/surgery; treatment outcome
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26504443 PMCID: PMC4591889 DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-15-5028
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tex Heart Inst J ISSN: 0730-2347