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Anomalous aortic origin of a right coronary artery: two brothers with an identical pattern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2021

Giuliano Giusti*
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy
Salvatore Caputo
Affiliation:
Cardiology and Heart failure Unit, Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord Hospital, Fano, Italy
Marco Pozzi
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy
*
Author for correspondence: G. Giusti, MD, Department of Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, 60126, Ancona, Italy. Tel: +39-0715965517; Fax: +39 071 596 5360. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We report on the diagnosis of anomalous coronary artery in two brothers. Following the diagnosis of anomalous coronary artery in one sibling, we screened immediate family relatives and found the same anomaly in the older brother. Familiarity in this pathology is extremely rare. We analysed and compared clinical, echocardiographic and radiological findings in the two brothers.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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