Italian Registry of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance on Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries (ITACA-Registry)

Launched by ITAB - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES · Dec 30, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

Congenital coronary anomalies (ACC) are relatively rare heart disease, in which a congenital defect of origin, course, and term, of one or more epicardial cardiac coronary arteries, is recognized. The global prevalence is estimated at around 0.6-0.7% in the general population, where the most frequent ACCs consist of the anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left breast (ARCA), with a prevalence of 0.23%; while the anomalous origin from the Sn coronary artery from the right breast (ALCA) would seem to have a prevalence of 0.03%.

ACCs have often been associated with an incre...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients with anomalous origin of the coronaries diagnosed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients with known ischemic heart disease
• • Patients with coronary atherosclerotic disease