Pachowicz M, Drozd J, Bełz M, Maciejewski R, Chrapko B
Chair and Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Poland; Chair and Department of Human Anatomy, Medical University of Lublin, Poland.
Folia Morphol (Warsz). 2014 Nov;73(4):514-20. doi: 10.5603/FM.2014.0079.
Coronary artery fistulae (CAF) are anomalies related to coronary artery abnormal termination. This is a very rare congenital malformation accounting for about 0.2-0.4% of congenital cardiac anomalies, but in some patients it can be haemodynamically important. Single-photon emission computed tomography or positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using radioactive agents is widely used in clinical practice for cardiac ischaemia detection as a very sensitive and non-invasive tool. We are going to present 2 patients with bilateral CAFs to the pulmonary trunk without signs of the rest or stress ischaemia in MPI.