Coronary Artery Fistulas: A Hint to Diagnose and Manage

Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is a still a challenging entity, characterized by a connection between one or more coronary arteries and a cardiac chamber (coronary-cameral fistulae) or a major blood vessel (arterio-venous fistulae) when the myocardial capillary bed is bypassed. It represents about 0.2%-0.4% of all cardiac malformations and 14% of all coronary anomalies. CAF reports in the Literature are various according to age, clinical presentation and treatment. Recently, our group reported two emblematic cases with Literature review on this matter.

Author(s):

Dario Buccheri, Ennio Ciottari, and Paola Rosa Chirco

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