Coronary fistulous communications with left ventricular chamber and giant mural thrombus after myocardial infarction

Jpn Heart J. 1994 Nov;35(6):801-8. doi: 10.1536/ihj.35.801.

Abstract

Selective coronary arteriography, performed in a 67-year-old man with post-infarction angina, demonstrated severe three vessel disease and coronary fistulous communications with the left ventricular chamber adjacent to a giant mural thrombus formed in the apical aneurysm. Most of the contrast media seemed to empty directly into the chamber without presenting hypervascular blushes of the thrombus itself. This was somewhat different from the observation previously reported in a case with coronary fistulae associated with a post infarction mural thrombus. It was stressed that one should not misinterpret this condition as a rare coronary artery-cardiac chamber shunt associating myocardial infarction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Disease / diagnosis
  • Coronary Disease / etiology*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Fistula / diagnosis
  • Fistula / etiology*
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Diseases / diagnosis
  • Heart Diseases / etiology*
  • Heart Ventricles
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Thrombosis / diagnosis
  • Thrombosis / etiology*