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 | ||
| Article 12, Volume 71, Issue 4, April 2018, Pages 2944-2949 PDF (427.36 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| Author | ||
| Issam Tariq Abdul Wahaab1, Sherif Abou Gamra2, Fatma Magdy Mohamad Salama2, Khaleel A. Hadi3 | ||
| 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. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Length of LAD; Coronary dominance | ||
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