St Elevation Myocardial Infarction in a Patient with an Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Originating from the Distal Left Circumflex

Nguyen Thao Phan; Huy The Nguyen; Tran-Thuy Nguyen; Ngoc Duc Ly; Ngoc-Thanh Le

doi:10.2147/IMCRJ.S232401

St Elevation Myocardial Infarction in a Patient with an Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Originating from the Distal Left Circumflex

Int Med Case Rep J. 2019 Dec 2:12:379-382. doi: 10.2147/IMCRJ.S232401. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Nguyen Thao Phan¹, Huy The Nguyen¹, Tran-Thuy Nguyen^{1

2}, Ngoc Duc Ly¹, Ngoc-Thanh Le^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, E Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.
² School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam National University (VNU), Hanoi, Vietnam.

Abstract

A single coronary artery (SCA) is a rare congenital anomaly that occurs in isolation without associated structural heart disease. Reports of a SCA with acute myocardial infarction are very rare in medical literature. This case study examines a patient with a right coronary artery that originated as a branch of the distal left circumflex artery, which had a total occlusion.

Keywords: coronary congenital anomaly; coronary intervention; myocardial infarction; single coronary artery.

Publication types

Case Reports