A Kaleidoscope heart. Issue 5 (26th April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ntalas, Ioannis; Freitas, Dario; Gowland, Abigail; Rajani, Ronak
• Is Part Of: Echocardiography. Volume 36:Issue 5(2019)
• Page Start: 1017
• Page End: 1018
• Publication Date: 2019-04-26
• Subjects: computed tomography -- congenital heart disease -- coronary artery ectasia -- echocardiography; Echocardiography -- Periodicals; Echocardiography -- Periodicals; 616.1207543
• DOI: 10.1111/echo.14345
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0742-2822

Abstract

Abstract: In the current manuscript, we report an unusual case of a young 18‐year‐old woman who survived an out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest secondary to Bland‐White‐Garland syndrome. Her transthoracic echocardiogram showed an abnormal color Doppler flow‐pattern within the myocardium indicative of coronary fistulous flow that prompted further evaluation with coronary CT angiography, which confirmed the diagnosis. Our case serves not only as a reminder to consider coronary artery anomalies as a cause of sudden cardiac death in young individuals but also as a prompt to investigate unusual echocardiographic findings with alternative imaging when the diagnosis may not be initially clear.