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A Rare Coronary Anomaly: Atypical Double Right Coronary Artery With an Acute Inferior Myocardial Infarction

  • Acet, Halit (Department of Cardiology, Diyarbakir Training and Research Hospital) ;
  • Ozyurtlu, Ferhat (Department of Cardiology, Diyarbakir Training and Research Hospital) ;
  • Bilik, Mehmet Zihni (Department of Cardiology, Diyarbakir Training and Research Hospital) ;
  • Ertas, Faruk (Department of Cardiology, Dicle University Medicine Faculty)
  • Published : 2012.03.31
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Abstract

Coronary artery anomalies are uncommon and often asymptomatic. A double right coronary artery (RCA) is an extremely rare coronary artery anomaly, and only a few cases of double RCA have been reported. We report on an atherosclerotic double RCA that appeared after primary percutaneous intervention in a patient with an acute inferior myocardial infarction. This is the second case in the literature in which coronary arteries can be accepted as a double RCA, which were hidden by a total atherosclerotic occlusion in the proximal part of the RCA.

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