Life saved and a lesson learned-anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery in pregnancy

Cardiol Young. 2022 Apr;32(4):662-664. doi: 10.1017/S1047951121003462. Epub 2021 Aug 31.

Abstract

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery constitutes 0.5% of all CHD (Boutsikou M, Shore D, Li W, et al, Int J Cardiol 261: 49-53, 2018). Fifteen percent survive into adulthood undiagnosed and 90% present with sudden death (Yau JM, Singh R, Halpern EJ, Fischman D, Clin Cardiol 34: 204-210, 2011; Alexi-Meskishvili V, Berger F, Weng Y, Lange PE, Hetzer R, J Card Surg 10: 309-315, 1995). We describe an enigmatic case of a 29-year-old female who presented after an aborted cardiac arrest and was diagnosed with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from pulmonary artery.

Keywords: Congenital heart disease; arrhythmia; cardiomyopathy; coronary artery imaging; ischaemia; myocardial injury; pregnancy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies* / diagnosis
  • Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
  • Female
  • Heart Arrest* / etiology
  • Humans
  • Pregnancy
  • Pulmonary Artery / abnormalities
  • Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging