Mahanta Dibyasundar, Parhi Deepak Kumar, Gadade Shilpa Vinayak, Das Debasish
Department of Cardiology, SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, IND.
Cureus. 2023 Sep 24;15(9):e45844. doi: 10.7759/cureus.45844. eCollection 2023 Sep.
It is extremely rare to come across a single coronary artery during routine interventional cardiology practice. The incidence of single coronary arteries increases across congenital heart diseases. We report an extremely rare case of a single coronary artery arising from the left coronary sinus in an octogenarian presenting with anterior wall non-ST elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) secondary to atherosclerotic occlusion of the proximal left main coronary artery (LMCA). It is often difficult to selectively engage a single coronary artery due to anomalous origin from the sinus; nonselective coronary sinus injection often suffices in visualizing the single coronary trunk dividing into left and right coronary arteries besides demonstrating the associated route and atherosclerotic anomalies.