TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Aplastic right coronary artery and left coronary artery with a separate origin of the circumflex branch in a 31-year-old woman
JO  - Forensic science international
A1  - Thierauf, Annette
A1  - Dettmeyer, Reinhard
A1  - Wollersen, Heike
A1  - Madea, Burkhard
SP  - 178
EP  - 181
VL  - 173
IS  - 2-3
N2  - Singular coronary arteries are a rare feature appearing in approximately 0.05% of the population. The clinical relevance of those anomalies varies a lot. The wide range of descriptions reaches from asymptomatic cases to sudden cardiac death. This will be discussed in a case report concerning a 31-year-old woman who was found dead in her apartment. Due to drugs that were found next to her, a suicide was assumed. The autopsy yielded an aplastic right coronary artery and a left coronary artery with an anomalous origin of the circumflex branch as well as a myocardial scar. The autopsy findings and the results of the toxicological examinations are presented and discussed in view of the cause of death.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0379-0738
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.01.001
ID  - ref1
ER  -