Coronary Arterial Fistula Combined with Coronary Artery Stenosis - A case report -

관상동정맥루에 동반된 관상동맥협착증의 수술치험 1례

Congenital coronary arterial fistulae are the most prevalent hemodynamically significant congenital coronary artery malformations. Definition of congenital coronary arterial fistula is a direct communication between a coronary artery and the lumen of one of the four cardiac chambers or coronary sinus or SVC, pulmonary artery or pulmonary vein close to the heart. It is often associated with additional congenital or acquired heart disease. A 49 year old male patient was admitted with the chief complaints of anginal pain and exertional dyspnea for 9 months. He was diagnosed as the right coronary arterial fistula combined with right coronary arteriosclerotic stenosis and old inferior myocardial infarction by cardiac evaluation. The right coronary arterial fistula was communicated between the just distal portion of acute marginal branch and coronary sinus. The operative procedure was as followings; after suture ligation of fistula opening in the coronary sinus under beating heart, coronary arterial bypass grafting with saphenous vein was performed at the just proximal portion of the posterior descending branch under cardiopulmonary bypass. The postoperative course was uneventful and he was discharged without anginal pain at the 8th postoperative day.