Day0 (admission) | A 41-year-old man complained occasional dizziness for 2 years, palpitations for 2 months. |
Day 1 |
Chest X-ray: enlarged cardiac silhouette with local protrusion of the right margin. Transthoracic echocardiography: preliminarily revealed the dilated right coronary artery (RCA), which connected to the left ventricle near the posterior mitral valve root through a fistula. |
Day 2 | Three-dimensional coronary artery computed tomography: visualized the giant tortuous RCA and the position of the fistula orifice. |
Day 5 | Coronary angiography: further confirmed the abnormal structures and excluded any stenosis or occlusion in other coronary arteries. |
Day 15 | The patient received surgical treatment, including repairment of the RCA-left ventricular fistula, resection and reconstruction of the dilated RCA and coronary artery bypass grafting under hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. |
Day 22 | Hospital discharge. |
1-year follow-up | No adverse clinical events were reported. |