Citation

Tonks R, Sharma R, Baljepally R (2019) A Rare Coronary Anomaly: Congenital Absence of the Left Circumflex Artery. Int J Clin Cardiol 6:156. doi.org/10.23937/2378-2951/1410156

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© 2019 Tonks R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

CASE REPORT | OPEN ACCESSDOI: 10.23937/2378-2951/1410156

A Rare Coronary Anomaly: Congenital Absence of the Left Circumflex Artery

Robert Tonks, MD*, Rajiv Sharma, MD and Raj Baljepally, MD, FACC

Department of Cardiology, Heart Lung Vascular Institute, University of Tennessee Medical Center, USA

Abstract

Congenital anomalies of the coronary vasculature are usually asymptomatic and rare with an incidence of less than 1% and there are few cases reported of congenital absence of the left circumflex artery. It is important to recognize this anomaly and define the anatomy by left heart catheterization or coronary angiography by computerized tomography when considering percutaneous intervention or coronary artery bypass surgery on patients without a left circumflex artery.