Surgical exclusion of a symptomatic circumflex coronary to right atrium fistula

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2007 Jun;6(3):413-4. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2006.149849. Epub 2007 Mar 2.

Abstract

Coronary artery fistulas are rare and half of them are symptomatic. Diagnosis is confirmed by echocardiography and coronarography and can be precisely located by multislice CT-scan. We report the case of a 56-year-old female patient with congestive heart failure caused by a coronaro-cardiac fistula established between the proximal circumflex coronary artery and the right atrium. Surgical exclusion of the fistula was achieved by ligation of both extremities and a running suture on the aneurysmal vessel. Follow-up at 6 months was satisfactory with an asymptomatic patient and absence of recurrence of the fistula on echocardiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / surgery*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Electrocardiography
  • Female
  • Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Fistula / surgery*
  • Heart Atria / abnormalities*
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Atria / surgery
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Humans
  • Ligation
  • Middle Aged
  • Suture Techniques
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Vascular Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Vascular Fistula / surgery*