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DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1349166
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Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Fistulas: Clinical Aspects and Brief Review of the Literature

Umesh M. Sharma
1   Department of Hospital Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare, La Crosse, Wisconsin
,
Ahmed F. Aslam
2   Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare, La Crosse, Wisconsin
,
Tahir Tak
2   Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare, La Crosse, Wisconsin
3   Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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09. Juli 2013 (online)

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Abstract

An 86-year-old woman with history of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and coronary artery disease was admitted with new-onset congestive heart failure and pneumonia. She underwent coronary angiography after suffering a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction. There was severe coronary artery disease in addition to coronary artery–pulmonary fistulas involving proximal right coronary artery and a branch of left main coronary artery.

Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is an abnormal communication between one or more coronary arteries and great vessels or a cardiac chamber. We reviewed 15 cases of CAFs published in PubMed and studied the clinical features of CAFs.