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Allen I. Midell, MD; Gustavo A. Bermudez, MD
Columbus Hospital Chicago

JAMA. 1978;240(19):2045.

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To the Editor.—

We read with interest the report on a fistula originating from the left anterior descending coronary artery and terminating in the left ventricle by Housman and associates (240:372,1978). We recently reported a similar case in which the fistula was surgically closed and presented a movie of the same at the American Heart Association meeting in Anaheim, Calif, on Nov 17, 1975.¹ Our patient's fistula involved the main left anterior descending coronary artery and not a diagonal or contributing branch. Consequently, the authors' statement, "to our knowledge, no reported case of leftcoronary-artery... to left-ventricle... fistula exists in the English literature," is an incongruity. We congratulate the authors on their report but must point out that a more thorough perusal of the recent surgical literature would have discovered our recent contribution to the understanding of this interesting anomaly. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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