Coronary artery fistula from the left circumflex to the coronary sinus

International Heart Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 147-152

  Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Ishihara, Kenji ^a   Egawa, Noriko ^a   Hosokawa, Yukio ^a   Nakamura, Eiji ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circumflex coronary artery; Coronary artery aneurysm; Coronary artery fistula; Coronary sinus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY SINUS BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART MURMUR; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 33344462549     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.47.147     Document Type: Article

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