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Volume 355:631-633 August 10, 2006 Number 6
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Severe Anomaly of Coronary-Artery Development

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To the Editor: A three-week-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of cardiac failure with diffuse ventricular hypocontractility and normal cardiac anatomy on echocardiography. Coronary and ventricular angiography failed to show any coronary arteries from the aortic root, the pulmonary arteries, or the ventricular cavities (Figure 1A). No coronary artery was visible on the surface of the heart at the time of exploratory sternotomy. The baby died suddenly afterward.

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  		Figure 1. Angiography and Postmortem Examination of the Heart of the Three-Week-Old Patient.

Aortography shows no coronary arteries visible from the aorta (Panel A). In an external view of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 


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