ABSTRACT
We describe a 67-year-old woman who presented with acute lateral myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography demonstrated a single coronary artery along with the left anterior descending and left circumflex arteries that originated from proximal branches of the right coronary artery, which arose from a normal ostium in the right sinus of Valsalva. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was performed to treat 99% stenosis with a filling defect in the midportion of the left circumflex artery. This extremely rare coronary anomaly was successfully treated by PCI.
Subject(s)
Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary , Coronary Vessel Anomalies/therapy , Sinus of Valsalva , Aged , Coronary Angiography , Coronary Vessel Anomalies/diagnostic imaging , Coronary Vessel Anomalies/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
A 20-year-old man with congestive heart failure (CHF) and hypertension (HT) was admitted to hospital. Ultrasonic echocardiography showed that he had aortic stenosis caused by a bicuspid aortic valve. The plasma renin concentration was slightly elevated, and enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and renography revealed a hypoplastic kidney that had almost lost its normal function. It is postulated that the increased afterload and preload of the left ventricle induced by both of these abnormalities contributed to the onset of CHF and HT. Pharmacological therapy alone failed to control the CHF and HT, but surgical removal of the hypoplastic kidney was effective in reducing the plasma renin concentration and treating the CHF and HT.
