Incidental congenital coronary artery vascular fistulas in adults: Evaluation with adenosine-N-ammonia PET-CT.

Aim: To assess the functionality of congenital coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) using adenosine stress N-ammonia positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT).

Methods: Congenital CAFs were incidentally detected during coronary angiography (CAG) procedures in 11 adult patients (six males and five females) with a mean age of 64.3 years (range 41-81).

Congenital coronary artery fistulas complicated with pulmonary hypertension: Analysis of 211 cases.

Aim: To compare the behavior of pulmonary hypertension (PHT) associated with coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) between the Asian and Caucasian subjects.

Methods: CAFs may be complicated with PHT secondary to left-to-right shunt. Literature review limited to the English language.

Characteristics of Congenital Coronary Artery Fistulas Complicated with Infective Endocarditis: Analysis of 25 Reported Cases.

Congenital coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) are infrequent congenital coronary artery anomalies. Complications such as left-to-right shunt, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, pericardial effusion, aneurysm formation, rupture, hemopericardium, pulmonary hypertension, infective endocarditis (IE), syncope, stroke, and sudden death may occur with a variable low frequency. To describe the clinical characteristics of patients with CAFs complicated by IE.

Cardiac and non-cardiac causes of T-wave inversion in the precordial leads in adult subjects: A Dutch case series and review of the literature.

Aim: To describe the electrocardiographic (ECG) phenomena characterized by T-wave inversion in the precordial leads in adults and to highlight its differential diagnosis.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of 8 adult patients who were admitted with ECG T-wave inversion in the anterior chest leads with or without prolongation of corrected QT (QTc) interval. They had different clinical conditions.

Coronary artery disease in congenital single coronary artery in adults: A Dutch case series.

Aim: To assess the current diagnostic and therapeutic management and the clinical implications of congenital single coronary artery (SCA) in adults.

Methods: We identified 15 patients with a SCA detected from four Dutch angiography centers in the period between 2010 and 2013. Symptomatic patients who underwent routine diagnostic coronary angiography (CAG) for suspected coronary artery disease and who incidentally were found to have isolated SCA were analyzed.

Coronary-cameral fistulas in adults: Acquired types (second of two parts).

Acquired coronary artery fistulas (CCFs) are infrequently detected during conventional coronary angiography. To delineate the characteristics of congenital (first part) and acquired (second part) CCFs in adults, a PubMed search was conducted for papers dealing with congenital or acquired CCFs. None of the publications describing patients with coronary-vascular fistulas were included.

Exercise-induced left bundle branch block: an infrequent phenomenon: Report of two cases.

Exercise-induced left bundle branch block (EI-LBBB) is infrequent phenomenon. We present two patients with angina pectoris who developed EI-LBBB during exercise tolerance test. The first patient with typical angina pectoris had significant obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) requiring percutaneous coronary intervention of multiple lesions including placement of drug eluting stents.

Coronary-cameral fistulas in adults (first of two parts).

This is a case series and review of the literature adding 11 new cases. Coronary-cameral fistulas (CCFs) are infrequent anomalies which are in general co-incidentally found during diagnostic coronary angiography (CAG). To delineate the characteristics of congenital and acquired CCFs in adults, we performed a PubMed search for papers dealing with congenital or acquired CCFs in adults.

Current characteristics of congenital coronary artery fistulas in adults: A decade of global experience.

Aim: To describe the characteristics of coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) in adults, including donor vessels and whether termination was cameral or vascular.

Methods: A PubMed search was performed for articles between 2000 and 2010 to describe the current characteristics of congenital CAFs in adults. A group of 304 adults was collected.

Congenital solitary coronary artery fistulas characterized by their drainage sites.

Last centuries have witnessed tremendous sophistication and progress in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery fistulas (CAFs). In many countries, CAFs were reported to be visualized and treated using several imaging techniques and different management strategies. Reports from nearly all continents of the globe have contributed to the description of CAFs, not only in Asia and Europe but also throughout North and Latin America.