Intra-atrial course of right coronary artery: A case report

Table 1 Literature summary of intra-atrial course of the right coronary artery

Ref.	Patients, n	Type	Sex	Age in yr	Risk factors	Symptoms	Imaging	Segment of RCA	Intra-atrial course length in mm	Stenosis, %	Outcome
Kolodziej et al[3], 1994	3	Autoptic series	UNK	UNK	UNK	UNK	Postmortem examination	Mid	15; 20; 30	No	Mortem
Rosamond et al[14], 2007	1	Case report	M	54	NR	Palpitation, atrial fibrillation	MDCTA 64	Distal	35	No	No atrial fibrillation
Scheffel et al[11], 2007	1	Case report	F	77	Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, family history	Atypical chest pain	MDCTA	Mid	55	No	NR
Zalamea et al[5], 2009	2	Series	F; F	70; 54	Atrial fibrillation; Smoker	Dyspnea on exertionChest pain, nausea, diaphoresis	MDCTA	Mid-distal; Mid-distal	40-50; 55	No; No	No ablation; NR
Andrade et al[6], 2010	1	Case report	M	46	Strong family history	No	MDCTA	Mid	25	No	NR
Lee et al[8], 2010	1	Case report	F	57	Hypertension, hyperlipidemia	Atypical chest pain	MDCTA	Mid	38	No	Discharged
Renapurkar et al[12], 2010	1	Case report	F	49	Family history	Atypical chest pain	MDCTA 64 DS	Mid	10	No	NR
Chou et al[19], 2011	1	Case report	M	56	Diabetes, hypertension	Chest tightness	MDCTA	PL	NS	No	Symptoms persistence
Christopher and Duraikannu[7], 2011	1	Case report	F	48	No	Chest pain, dyspnea, palpitation	MDCTA	Mid	15	No	NR
Bansal et al[10], 2011	2	Series	NS	NS	NS	NS	MDCTA	Segment 3; Segment 2	13.2; 15.6	NS	NS
Zeina[17], 2011	1	Case report	M	59	Multiple	Chest pain	MDCTA 64	Distal	40	No	NR
Waniewska et al[24], 2012	1	Case report	F	62	NR	Atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation, fainting, hypotension	MDCTA	Distal	50	No	RFA
Opolski et al[9], 2014	14	Series	M:F = 2:12	54 (mean)	Diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoker, family history	Atypical chest pain, stable angina pectoris, syncope, dyspnea, palpitations, arrhythmia	MDCTA	Segment 3 (47%); Segment 2 (40%); Segment 1 and 4 (13%)	29 (mean)	No	Conservative approach
Bunkiewicz et al[13], 2015	1	Case report	F	78	Hypertension, previous acute coronary syndrome	Not specific chest pain, low tolerance of physical effort, dry cough	MDCTA	Mid	20	No	UNK
Buckley et al[16], 2017	17	Series	NS	NS	NS	NS	MDCTA	NS	NS	NS	NS
Krishnan et al[4], 2017	6	Autoptic series	M	69 (mean)	NS	UNK	Postmortem examination	Type I: Mid; Type II: Mid; Type III: Anterior branch	Type I: 22 (mean); Type II: 36; Type III: UNK	No	Mortem
Ganga et al[20], 2019	1	Case report	M	45	NR	Atypical chest pain	MDCTA	Mid	45	No	NR
Bouhuijzen et al[18], 2019	1	Case report	F	64	NR	Atypical chest pain	MDCTA	NS	40	No
Hossain et al[2], 2019	7	Series	M:F = 71.4:28.6	67.3(mean)	Chest pain (25%), shortness of breath (33%)	Pre-TAVR	MDCTA	NS	33.4 (mean)	No	No coronary intervention
Mahmoud et al[22], 2020	1	Case report	F	61	NS	Chest pain	MDCTA	Mid	39	NS	NR
Junco-Vicente et al[21], 2020	3	Series	1M; 2F	NS	NS	Chest pain	MDCTA	Mid	27.7 (mean)	No	UNK
Marrone et al[26], 2020	1	Case report	F	48	Aortic valve disease	NR	MDCTA	Distal	49	No	NR
Ganga et al[1], 2021	21	Series	M:F = 1.3:1	53.7 (mean)	NR	NR	MDCTA	Mid (16/21); Distal (5/21)	14.85 (mean)	No	NR
Frey et al[23], 2022	1	Case report	M	55	Hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, smoker, obesity	Atypical angina, dyspnea	MDCTA	Mid (posterior)	40	No	Conservative approach
Borges et al[25], 2022	1	Case report	M	66	NS	Palpitation, tachycardia, dyspnea	MDCTA	Mid	30	No	NR
Barbiero et al	1	Case report	M	54	Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoker	Atypical chest pain	MDCTA	Mid	25	No	Medical treatment

F: Female; M: Male; MDCTA: Multi-detector computed tomography angiography; NR: Not reported; NS: Not specified; PL: Posterior lateral; RFA: Radiofrequency ablation; TAVR: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement; UNK: Unknown; DS: Dual source.