Key result
A 27-year-old female with rare congenital coronary anomalies, including an anomalous left anterior descending artery and absent left circumflex, was successfully treated with percutaneous coronary intervention for an inferior myocardial infarction.
Case Report (n=1)
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Highlights a rare case of premature acute coronary syndrome in a young female with multiple congenital coronary artery anomalies and thrombophilia risk factors, successfully managed with percutaneous coronary intervention.
May support PCI feasibility in young patients with anomalous coronaries and MI; leaves open need for larger outcome studies.
Coronary artery anomalies are rare congenital disorders occurring in 0.3-5.6 % of the population. However, it carries a potential risk of sudden death in young athletes due to the development of premature coronary artery disease. The diagnosis of coronary artery anomalies is usually made incidentally; commonly found while investigating other cardiac conditions. A coronary CT angiography and traditional interventional angiography are the gold standards for diagnosing congenital coronary artery anomalies. Here, we present a case of a 27 year-old female with a history of hypertension and membranous glomerulonephritis with proteinuria presenting with an inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction. Cardiac catheterization revealed an anomalous origin of the left anterior descending artery from the right coronary cusp and absence of the left circumflex artery with a super-dominant right coronary artery. The patient had an occlusion of the right posterior descending artery and the right posterolateral segment. We discuss the clinical diagnosis and intervention of the case along with review of the literature.
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Al‐Sadawi et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction with congenital coronary artery anomalies (n=1). Percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents was evaluated on Clinical stabilization and successful stent deployment. A 27-year-old female with rare congenital coronary anomalies, including an anomalous left anterior descending artery and absent left circumflex, was successfully treated with percutaneous coronary intervention for an inferior myocardial infarction.
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