A Kaleidoscope heart

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Kaleidoscope heart

AU - Ntalas, Ioannis

AU - Freitas, Dario

AU - Gowland, Abigail

AU - Rajani, Ronak

PY - 2019/5/1

Y1 - 2019/5/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - computed tomography

KW - congenital heart disease

KW - coronary artery ectasia

KW - echocardiography

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065125716&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/echo.14345

DO - 10.1111/echo.14345

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85065125716

SN - 0742-2822

VL - 36

SP - 1017

EP - 1018

JO - ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

JF - ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

IS - 5

ER -