Silent Coronary Artery-Left Ventricular Fistula: A Disorder of the Thebesian System?

Abstract

Two cases with abnormal elec trocardiogram were found to have the unusual direct communication between the coronary artery and left ventricular chamber without any manifestations of the other reported coronary arterial fis tula.

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