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Incidental finding of single coronary artery in a patient with alcoholic cardiomyopathy presenting as acute heart failure.

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Single coronary artery is a rare clinical finding. Diagnosis is typically made incidentally after the patient presents with symptoms and undergoes coronary angiography, coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA), or post-mortem… Click to show full abstract

Single coronary artery is a rare clinical finding. Diagnosis is typically made incidentally after the patient presents with symptoms and undergoes coronary angiography, coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA), or post-mortem during autopsy. Several high-risk features of anomalous coronary arteries have been described in the literature. Our paper describes a case of dilated alcoholic cardiomyopathy presenting as heart failure with diagnostic workup incidentally revealing single coronary artery.

Keywords: alcoholic cardiomyopathy; coronary artery; heart failure; single coronary; cardiomyopathy presenting

Journal Title: Clinical imaging
Year Published: 2017

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