Congenital Absence of the Left Circumflex Coronary Artery Associated with Acute Myocardial Infarction - A Case Report

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-93

  Hashimoto, Nobuyuki ^a   Nagashima, Junzo ^a   Miyazu, Osamu ^a   Akashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Kawasaki, Kensuke ^a   Imai, Yukiko ^a   Tsuchiya, Katsuhiko ^a   Ozawa, Atsushi ^a   So, Takehiko ^a   Musha, Haruki ^a   Sakakibara, Masayosi ^b   Miyake, Fumihiko ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Circumflex coronary artery; Congenital anomaly; Coronary artery; Left main trunk

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGENESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LEFT CIRCUMFLEX CORONARY ARTERY AGENESIS; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RARE DISEASE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0942276917     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.91     Document Type: Article

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