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All right. So let me scroll through this case and I'll
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start from the top and scroll through and again,
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I want you to tell me where the abnormality
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is the most significant abnormality.
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I'll come back up.
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Come back down.
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Okay, so let's open the polling question. So what
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is the location of the most significant abnormality?
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Let's go through a couple more times.
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Okay, and let's close this poll and see what people thought.
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And people said cardiac
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Chambers and it's true. I can
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I can see that, you know,
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the right atrium looks a little bit enlarged. I can understand thinking that
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the cardiac Chambers are abnormal here. But
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let me show you another abnormalities. So let's take a
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look at the coronary arteries. Let's
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come back up and what's follow them. So here's the the
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left Main and then we can follow that down into the LED.
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And then I can see that something's branching off
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here. But this looks like a diagonal branch. And the question is where is
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the circumflex coronary artery? I don't quite see
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it there. Let's go over to the right side of the heart and let's
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scroll down. I can see the right coronary coming off right there.
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And then there's a vessel that comes off of the right coronary and
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comes behind the order and comes over loops around
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and then comes back up and this is
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actually the circumflex coronary artery. So the
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correct answer is actually coronary arteries. So
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this is an anomalous course of the left circumflex coronary
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artery. It's coming from the wrong side coming from
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the right side and it has a
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so called retro aortic horse. It goes behind the aorta and
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this is one of these so called benign courses of
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the coronary arteries and that are
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anomalous and it's benign because it does not course between the
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pulmonary and aorta at or above
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the level of harmonic valve. So there's no chance that this
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is going to get compressed at any point during life
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the importance though recognizing this is
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it maybe important if you're planning surgery on a patient
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like this certainly cardiac surgery very important to know but
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a lot of other surgeries May encounter in almost
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vessel, and it's important to note.
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When you can see them, but notice how there's some
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motion here, but you can clearly see that there is
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anomalous course and origin of the circumflex. And
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this is the most common anomaly of
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origin and course of the coronary
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arteries the anomalous circumflex from
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the left side.
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Sorry from the right side. So that's the most common anomaly of
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origin. Of course.