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Anomalous Coronary Arteries

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Coronary artery anomalies are a heterogenous group of rare malformations of the coronary arteries, which can occur at its origin, course, intrinsic anatomy, branches, or termination. These anomalies have variable clinical presentation, ranging from asymptomatic to congestive heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Cardiac CT is increasingly used for the diagnosis and post-intervention follow-up of coronary artery anomalies as cardiac CT offers excellent resolution of the coronary artery origin and course. The preferred cardiac CT technique for coronary artery evaluation is retrospective gated cardiac CT using modern dual-source multidetector CT scanners.

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Xiong, L. (2021). Anomalous Coronary Arteries. In: Adebo, D.A. (eds) Pediatric Cardiac CT in Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74822-7_21

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