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Acta Medica Colombiana

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DEVIA, Germán; VALVERDE, Emiro  and  MARMOLEJO, Libardo. A rare cause of cardiac arrest. Acta Med Colomb [online]. 2016, vol.41, n.1, pp.71-73. ISSN 0120-2448.

Cardiac arrest is mostly secondary to coronary disease; this article refers to a patient with cardiac arrest secondary to acute myocardial infarction with ST elevation who was studied documenting healthy epicardial arteries, but with the presence of a fistula between the left anterior descending artery into a neoplastic lesion of the mediastinum that was documented in previous imaging studies. Coronary fistulae are rare in its presentation; this case demonstrates a fistula associated with the presence of a tumor of the mediastinum of a patient admitted in the emergency department in cardiac arrest being a bizarre cause in determining the etiology of cardiac arrest. (Acta Med Colomb 2016; 41: 71-73).

Keywords : cardiac arrest; coronary fistula; infarction with ST elevation.

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