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CASE REPORT article

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Cardiovascular Imaging
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1432680
This article is part of the Research Topic Case Reports in Cardiovascular Imaging: 2024 View all articles

The Winding Road to Dyspnea: An Unusual Presentation of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery

Provisionally accepted
Allen Fooks Allen Fooks 1Ranvir Bhatia Ranvir Bhatia 2Sanjay Sivalokanathan Sanjay Sivalokanathan 2,3*
  • 1 Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
  • 2 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • 3 Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, United States

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    Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital anomaly. Such patients are unlikely to survive adulthood without a major surgical correction. We report a 30-year-old female with a lifelong murmur, who presented to the sports cardiology clinic with progressively reduced exercise tolerance. She was eventually diagnosed with ALCAPA and underwent successful Takeuchi repair.

    Keywords: ALCAPA (Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery), cardiac imaging, Sports cardiology, angina, Shortness of breath

    Received: 14 May 2024; Accepted: 29 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Fooks, Bhatia and Sivalokanathan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Sanjay Sivalokanathan, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, United States

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