tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Primary congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries and relation to atherosclerosis: an angiographic study in Lebanon"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Primary congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries and relation to atherosclerosis: an angiographic study in Lebanon. | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery BioMed Central Research article Open Access Primary congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries and relation to atherosclerosis an angiographic study in Lebanon Ali H Eid 1 Ziad Itani2 Mohammad Al-Tannir2 Said Sayegh2 and Ali Samaha 2 3 4 Address Departmentof Biology College of Science United Arab Emirates University Al-Ain UAE 2Department of Internal Medicine Makassed General Hospital Beirut Lebanon 3Department of Human Morphology Faculty of Public Health Lebanese University Zahle Lebanon and 4Cellular and Molecular Signaling Research Group Departments of Biology and Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lebanese International University Beirut Lebanon Email Ali H Eid - alieid@ Ziad Itani - Mohammad Al-Tannir - Said Sayegh - said_sayegh@ Ali Samaha - Corresponding authors Published 29 October 2009 Received 24 August 2009 Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009 4 58 doi 1749-8090-4-58 Accepted 29 October 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 58 2009 Eid et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Most coronary artery anomalies are congenital in origin. This study angiographically determined the prevalence of different forms of anomalous aortic origins of coronary anomalies and their anatomic variation in a selected adult Lebanese population. Correlation between these anomalies and stenotic coronary atherosclerotic disease was also investigated. Methods 4650 coronary angiographies were analyzed for anomalous aortic origin. These anomalies were clustered in four main groups anomalous left circumflex LCX coronary .