Diffuse Plexus-Like Coronary Artery-Left Ventricular Fistulae Leading to Coronary Steal Syndrome: A Pattern of Anomalous Coronary Microvascularization

作者：Chang Huai Ren; Hsieh Jen Che; Wang Ji Hung; Huang Shoei K Stephen^*

来源：Internal Medicine, 2013, 52(17): 1923-1925.

DOI：10.2169/internalmedicine.52.0813

• coronary steal
• coronary artery anomaly
• fistula

Coronary artery fistulae that drain into the left ventricle are extremely rare, and even fewer cases of fistulae involving all three of the coronary arteries have so far been reported. We herein report a 64-year-old woman with a unique pattern of coronary artery-left ventricular fistulae that involved all three of the coronary arteries. The multiple fistulae presented in a diffuse plexus-like arrangement. The fistulae resulted in a diastolic volume overload of the left ventricle (left-to-left shunt), as well as "coronary steal" with the shunting of blood away from the myocardium since the fistulae represented the path of least resistance.

• 出版日期2013
• 单位河北医科大学