A Case of Marfan's Syndrome with Absent Right Coronary Artery Complicated by Aortic Dissection and Right Ventricular Infarction

Overview

Journal Thorax

Date 1975 Jun 1

PMID 124959

Authors

A G Leitch

P K Caves

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Abstract

The first patient to be reported with Marfan's syndrome and an absent right coronary artery is described. Dissection of the ascending aorta was associated with right ventricular infarction which was probably due to the coronary artery anomaly and caused his death.

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