The coronary angiogram was undertaken via the right transradial approach and demonstrated a dominant right coronary artery (RCA), which was occluded just after the ostium (Fig. 1). The left circumflex… Click to show full abstract
The coronary angiogram was undertaken via the right transradial approach and demonstrated a dominant right coronary artery (RCA), which was occluded just after the ostium (Fig. 1). The left circumflex was a small vessel with mild atherosclerotic disease. There was some distal tapering of the left main stem into an otherwise healthy left anterior descending artery (LAD). Interestingly, there was a huge epicardial collateral to the posterior descending artery (PDA) arising from the LAD and filling virtually the entirety of the RCA (Fig. 2; Supplementary Video 1, Supplemental digital content 1, http://links.lww.com/ MCA/A381; Supplementary Video 2, Supplemental digital content 2, http://links.lww.com/MCA/A382; Supplementary Video 3, Supplemental digital content 3, http://links.lww. com/MCA/A383). There was no obvious discrete point of transition and the lumen diameter appeared to be unchanged throughout. The PDA in itself had some nonflow limiting atheroma at its mid portion.
               
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