A "Snake-Like" Vessel in the Thorax

Eirini Beneki; Kyriakos Dimitriadis; Alexios S Antonopoulos; Konstantinos Tsioufis; Constantina Aggeli

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.102181

A "Snake-Like" Vessel in the Thorax

JACC Case Rep. 2023 Dec 22;29(3):102181. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.102181. eCollection 2024 Feb 7.

Authors

Eirini Beneki¹, Kyriakos Dimitriadis¹, Alexios S Antonopoulos¹, Konstantinos Tsioufis¹, Constantina Aggeli¹

Affiliation

¹ First Cardiology Department, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Abstract

We report a congenital extracardiac arteriovenous fistula revealed incidentally in a patient undergoing computed tomographic coronary angiography for angina. This clinical vignette panel describes the origin and the trajectory of this rare vascular lesion.

Keywords: arteriovenous malformation; computed tomographic coronary angiography; fistula.