Volume: 7 Issue: 2
Year: 2019, Page: 80-81,
A coronary artery fistula involves a sizeable communication between one of the coronary arteries and a cardiac chamber (coronary cameral fistula) or a vein (coronary arteriovenous fistula). Sixty percent of these fistulae arise from the right coronary artery and terminate mostly (90%) in the right side of the heart. The most frequent sites of termination in the descending order are the right ventricle, right atrium, coronary sinus, and the pulmonary vasculature. The majority of these patients presents in adulthood and are usually asymptomatic, often being detected accidentally. The resultant physiologic derangement depends upon the site of origin and termination of the fistula and the size of the connection. We report a case of a 3 year old female child presented to our hospital CCF aneurismal fistulous tract connecting right coronary artery to right atrium for which fistulectomy and repair of terminal opining done.
Keywords: CCF coronary cameral fistula, CAF coronary artery fistula, RCA right coronary artery, RA right atrium.
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