Emergency percutaneous coronary intervention to a rare coronary anomaly.

J Cardiol Cases

Manchester Heart Centre, Central Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Published: August 2012

An anomalous single coronary artery is a rare finding, which occurs with a frequency reported to be between 0.024% and 0.066%. In this case report we discuss the presentation and percutaneous treatment of ongoing myocardial ischemia in a patient with previously undiagnosed isolated single coronary artery of Lipton type R-I, which is the rarest of the coronary anomalies and occurs with a frequency of <0.0008%.

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