Bilateral origin of the left anterior descending coronary artery in a young man.

Abnormalities of coronary artery origin from the aorta have been implicated in sudden death in sports among young athletes. We describe an 18-year-old patient who presented with nonspecific chest pain, developed ventricular couplets during recovery from a stress test, and whose coronary angiograms revealed bilateral left anterior descending coronary arteries, an abnormality that has not been previously reported.