Eastern J Med. 2015; 20(4): 245-247
Abnormal origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA): A rare case report
İbrahim Halil Altıparmak1, Aydemir Koçarslan2, Muslihittin Emre Erkuş1, Uğur Aktı3, Remzi Yılmaz41
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Abnormal origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA) syndrome is a rare congenital coronary anomaly (1/300000 live births). Generally most of the patients with the anomaly die in childhood because of several reasons. It is seen that only a few patients survive up to adulthood in the literature. We report a 39 years old man with the anomaly which reached adulthood and successfully treated surgically.
Keywords: ALCAPA, adult, congenital, coronary, abnormality
İbrahim Halil Altıparmak, Aydemir Koçarslan, Muslihittin Emre Erkuş, Uğur Aktı, Remzi Yılmaz. Abnormal origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA): A rare case report. Eastern J Med. 2015; 20(4): 245-247
Manuscript Language: English