Left circumflex coronary artery to left atrial fistula in a patient with mitral stenosis: Invasive and noninvasive findings with pathophysiologic correlation

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 52-54

  McClung, John A ^a   Belkin, Robert N ^a   Chaudhry, Saulat S ^a  

^a WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery fistula; coronary artery flow; mitral stenosis; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS;

EID: 0030027341     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199601)37:1<52::AID-CCD13>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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