Khaleel A. Hadi3, I. (2018). Length of Left Anterior Descending (LAD) Coronary Artery in Relation to Right & Left Dominancy: A Retrospective Computed Tomographic (CT) Coronary Angiographic Study. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 71(4), 2944-2949.
Issam Tariq Abdul Wahaab1, Sherif Abou Gamra2, Fatma Magdy Mohamad Salama2, Khaleel A. Hadi3. "Length of Left Anterior Descending (LAD) Coronary Artery in Relation to Right & Left Dominancy: A Retrospective Computed Tomographic (CT) Coronary Angiographic Study". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 71, 4, 2018, 2944-2949.
Khaleel A. Hadi3, I. (2018). 'Length of Left Anterior Descending (LAD) Coronary Artery in Relation to Right & Left Dominancy: A Retrospective Computed Tomographic (CT) Coronary Angiographic Study', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 71(4), pp. 2944-2949.
Khaleel A. Hadi3, I. Length of Left Anterior Descending (LAD) Coronary Artery in Relation to Right & Left Dominancy: A Retrospective Computed Tomographic (CT) Coronary Angiographic Study. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018; 71(4): 2944-2949.
Length of Left Anterior Descending (LAD) Coronary Artery in Relation to Right & Left Dominancy: A Retrospective Computed Tomographic (CT) Coronary Angiographic Study
1Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Baghdad University 2Department of Radiodiagnosis, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University 3X-ray Institute, Medical City Directorate, Baghdad, Iraq
Abstract
Background: the LAD artery supplies blood to a large part of the myocardium. However, the amount of myocardium supplied varies depending on the length of LAD artery and as a result; occlusion at different portion may influence perfusion of different part of myocardial. Objective: to estimate the length of LAD artery and its possible relationship with the coronary arterial dominance pattern. Patients and Methods: in this study we retrospectively compared 50 coronary CT angiograms of patients with left coronary dominance with 50 coronary CT angiograms of patients with right coronary dominance Results: it revealed that there was a significant relationship between the length of LAD artery and the pattern of dominancy since the P- Value appeared to be < 0.001. Conclusion: length of LAD artery appeared to be dependent on the dominance pattern and it was taller in left coronary dominant pattern.
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