Myocardial ischemia due to a large coronary-pulmonary fistula with plexus-like morphology

J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown). 2008 Nov;9(11):1163-5. doi: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3283117d1f.

Abstract

Congenital coronary-pulmonary artery fistula is a rare anomaly. We report the case of a coronary-pulmonary artery fistula with plexus-like morphology connecting the left main stem and proximal segments of the left anterior descending and circumflex coronary arteries to the main pulmonary artery in a 69-year-old woman. It caused inducible ischemia as revealed by myocardial perfusion tetrafosmin scintigraphy (Tc-99m SPECT). To our knowledge, no case of a large plexus-like coronary-pulmonary artery fistula from the very proximal left coronary artery has been reported. Furthermore, only a few cases report scintigraphic demonstration of severe ischemia in such a coronary anomaly.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / complications*
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / drug therapy
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / pathology
  • Cardiac-Gated Single-Photon Emission Computer-Assisted Tomography
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / complications*
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / drug therapy
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Ischemia / drug therapy
  • Myocardial Ischemia / etiology*
  • Myocardial Ischemia / pathology
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery / abnormalities*
  • Pulmonary Artery / pathology