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(Circulation. 1959;20:918.)
© 1959 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Aberrant Left Coronary Artery

Report of a Case and Review of the Literature

HARVEY COHEN M.B., B.CH.¹ SHIRLEY SIEW M.B., B.CH.¹

¹ From the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Coronation Hospital and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

A case is reported of the anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery in a Bantu male infant aged 9 months. The clinical, radiologic, and electrocardiographic findings, and the cardiac pathology are presented.

The 45 cases previously reported in the literature are reviewed and the clinical syndrome and pathologic physiology of the aberrant left coronary artery are discussed.