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CT Angiography for Assessment of Coronary Artery Anomalies

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CT of the Heart

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In Summer 2002, a 21-yr-old man was found dead one early morning in his apartment. He had been a healthy sportsman, but sometimes he felt an atypical pressure in the left side of his chest, independent of body stress. In all former medical examinations (i.e., electrocardiogram [ECG], stress ECG, and echocardiography), particularly in the armed forces, no pathological diagnosis had been found. The gross specimen showed an anomaly of his coronary arteries: the right coronary artery (RCA) had its origin out of the left sinus of Valsalva and showed a so-called interarterial course, between aorta and pulmonary artery.

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Froehner, S.C., Wagner, M., Brunn, J., Schmitt, R.R. (2005). CT Angiography for Assessment of Coronary Artery Anomalies. In: Schoepf, U.J. (eds) CT of the Heart. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-818-8:259

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