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Coronary artery fistulas are unusual congenital or acquired coronary artery abnormalities in which blood is shunted into a cardiac chamber, great vessel or other structure, bypassing the myocardial capillary network (Jung et al. in Cardiovasc Ultrasound 5:10, 2007). We present a young adult patient with an asymptomatic fistula from a giant aneurysmatic left anterior descending artery to the right ventricular outflow tract, first diagnosed by echocardiography examination and further confirmed by 128-slice computed tomography coronary angiography.
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Mustelier, J.V., Rego, J.O.C., Aquiles, E.W.O. et al. Asymptomatic fistula from a giant aneurysmatic left anterior descending artery to the right ventricular outflow tract. J Echocardiogr 8, 121–123 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-010-0040-2
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