Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery

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Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCA-PA) is a rare form of congenital heart disease.In this report, Coffee Table three cases with this anomaly are described; two patients presented in infancy with heart failure from myocardial ischemia and infarction, while the third was asymptomatic and ALCA-PA was diagnosed during evaluation of a residual VIT C 500MG ORANGE murmur after surgery for associated cardiac defects (ventricular septal defect and patent arterial duct).All three cases underwent aorto-pulmonary tunnel repair (Tukeuchi procedure), and to our knowledge two of them are the first infantile cases reported in Turkey.