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Surgical management of congenital coronary arterial anomalies in adults encompasses various operative options and specific indications to address ischemia and sudden cardiac death.
This review outlines the indications and surgical options for treating congenital coronary arterial anomalies in adults.
May inform surgical decisions for rare adult coronary anomalies; leaves open need for prospective outcome data.
Congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries are an uncommon, but important, cause of pain in the chest, myocardial ischaemia and even sudden cardiac death, especially in young individuals. This paper focuses on the surgical treatment of congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries in adults; indications for surgery and the different surgical options will be reviewed.
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Said et al. (2010) studied this question. Surgical management of congenital coronary arterial anomalies in adults encompasses various operative options and specific indications to address ischemia and sudden cardiac death.
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