Isolated single coronary artery from nonadjacent sinus of Valsalva
Meenu Bagarhatta1, Ritu Agarwal1, Rengarajan Rajagopal1
1Department of Radiodiagnosis, SMS Medical College and Attached Hospitals, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|September 30, 2020
Abstract:
We present the computed tomography angiogram images of a 43-year-old lady with an isolated single coronary artery arising from the nonadjacent sinus of aortic root.
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