Gać Paweł, Trejtowicz-Sutor Agnieszka, Poręba Rafał
Centre for Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Military Hospital, Weigla 5, PL 50-981 Wroclaw, Poland.
Department of Population Health, Division of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Mikulicza-Radeckiego 7, PL 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Apr 7;13(8):1369. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13081369.
Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a non-invasive method for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. In addition to the assessment of possible stenoses in the coronary arteries, this method also allows the assessment of other abnormalities of coronary and extracoronary heart structures. CCTA is the optimal method for assessing the relationship of coronary arteries to other anatomical structures; thus, it is used as a method of diagnosing developmental variants of coronary circulation. We present images of a single left coronary artery in a 384-slice CCTA in a 69-year-old Caucasian female patient with non-specific chest pain and low intermediate cardiovascular risk as an example of a rare developmental coronary variant. In conclusion, the importance of CCTA as a method of diagnosing developmental variations of the heart and vessels should be emphasized.
心脏计算机断层扫描血管造影(CCTA)是一种用于诊断冠状动脉疾病的非侵入性方法。除了评估冠状动脉中可能存在的狭窄外,该方法还可用于评估冠状动脉和心脏外结构的其他异常情况。CCTA是评估冠状动脉与其他解剖结构关系的最佳方法;因此,它被用作诊断冠状动脉循环发育变异的一种方法。我们展示了一名69岁非特异性胸痛且心血管风险为低中危的白种女性患者在384层CCTA中的单支左冠状动脉图像,作为一种罕见的冠状动脉发育变异的示例。总之,应强调CCTA作为诊断心脏和血管发育变异方法的重要性。