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Ostial atresia of left circumflex coronary artery arising from non-coronary sinus: a combination of rare anomalies

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Atresia of the left coronary artery ostium and right coronary artery ostium is a rare anatomic variant of the coronary circulation. Atresia of the left circumflex artery and its origin of from the non-coronary sinus have never been described. We report this unusual combination of rare anomalies for the first time.

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  1. Department of Cardiology and Radiology, GB Pant Hospital and Associated Maulana Azad Medical College, Room 125, Academic Block, First Floor Dept of Cardiology, New Delhi, 110002, India

    M. P. Girish, Mohit D. Gupta, Vivek Chaturvedi, Amit Gupta & Sonali Sethi

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Supplementary material 1 (MP4 513 kb) Movie 1: Simultaneous coronary angiogram of RCA and LCA showing opacification of LCx which appears to be terminating near non-coronary sinus instead of left coronary sinus

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Girish, M.P., Gupta, M.D., Chaturvedi, V. et al. Ostial atresia of left circumflex coronary artery arising from non-coronary sinus: a combination of rare anomalies. Cardiovasc Interv and Ther 31, 284–287 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12928-015-0350-4

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