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diagonal artery

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diagonal artery,
an inconstant artery, occasionally duplicated, arising from the trunk of the left anterior descending coronary artery and crossing the anterior aspect of the left ventricle diagonally, toward the left margin.


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Repeat cardiac catheterization 11 days after bypass showed the left main aneurysm with flow to the left circumflex artery and D1, a thrombosed proximal LAD with retrograde filling via a left internal mammary artery graft to the diagonal artery territory, and patent vein grafts to the left circumflex and obtuse marginal arteries.
An SVG to the left side is attached distally to the LAD artery, diagonal artery, left circumflex (LCx) artery, or the obtuse marginal (OM) arteries, by traversing anteriorly and superiorly to the right ventricular outflow tract or main pulmonary artery.
 
 
 
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