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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abcic</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>ABC Imagem Cardiovascular</journal-title>
				<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ABC Imagem Cardiovasc.</abbrev-journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">2318-8219</issn>
			<issn pub-type="epub">2675-312X</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>Departamento de Imagem Cardiovascular da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiolodia (DIC/SBC)</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
		</journal-meta>
		<article-meta>
			<article-id pub-id-type="other">02203</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abcimg.20260023i</article-id>
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				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Case Report</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>Single Coronary Artery and Stress Cardiomyopathy: An Association Demonstrated by Multimodality Imaging</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-4959-0489</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Ferreira</surname>
						<given-names>Marcus Vinicius Silva</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Conception and design of the research</role>
					<role>Acquisition of data</role>
					<role>Writing of the manuscript</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0007-6664-9186</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Tormin</surname>
						<given-names>Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Conception and design of the research</role>
					<role>Acquisition of data</role>
					<role>Writing of the manuscript</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-3053-3583</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Dantas</surname>
						<given-names>Roberto Nery</given-names>
						<suffix>Jr</suffix>
					</name>
					<role>Conception and design of the research</role>
					<role>Analysis and interpretation of the data</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-5547-6821</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Torres</surname>
						<given-names>Roberto Vitor Almeida</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Analysis and interpretation of the data</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0001-7827-9115</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Cordeiro</surname>
						<given-names>Renan Andreos</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Acquisition of data</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-8627-3661</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Araújo</surname>
						<given-names>José de Arimateia Batista</given-names>
						<suffix>Filho</suffix>
					</name>
					<role>Conception and design of the research</role>
					<role>Analysis and interpretation of the data</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<name>
						<surname>Cardoso</surname>
						<given-names>Luiz Francisco</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Acquisition of data</role>
					<role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
			</contrib-group>
			<aff id="aff1">
				<label>1</label>
				<institution content-type="orgname">Hospital Sirio-Libanes</institution>
				<addr-line>
					<named-content content-type="city">São Paulo</named-content>
					<named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
				</addr-line>
				<country country="BR">Brazil</country>
				<institution content-type="original">Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, SP – Brazil</institution>
			</aff>
			<author-notes>
				<corresp id="c01">
					<label>Mailing Address:</label> Marcus Vinicius Silva Ferreira Hospital Sírio-Libânes. Rua Dona Adma Jafet, 115. Postal code: 01308-050. São Paulo, SP – Brazil E-mail: <email>marcusvsferreira@gmail.com</email>
				</corresp>
				<fn fn-type="coi-statement">
					<label>Potential Conflict of Interest:</label>
					<p> No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.</p>
				</fn>
				<fn fn-type="edited-by">
					<label>Editor responsible for the review:</label>
					<p> Marcelo Tavares</p>
				</fn>
			</author-notes>
			<pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
				<day>11</day>
				<month>06</month>
				<year>2026</year>
			</pub-date>
			<pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
				<season>Apr-Jun</season>
				<year>2026</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>39</volume>
			<issue>2</issue>
			<elocation-id>e20260023</elocation-id>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>23</day>
					<month>03</month>
					<year>2026</year>
				</date>
				<date date-type="rev-recd">
					<day>6</day>
					<month>04</month>
					<year>2026</year>
				</date>
				<date date-type="accepted">
					<day>6</day>
					<month>04</month>
					<year>2026</year>
				</date>
			</history>
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				<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xml:lang="en">
					<license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License</license-p>
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				<title>Keywords:</title>
				<kwd>Coronary Vessels</kwd>
				<kwd>Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy</kwd>
				<kwd>Coronary Angiography</kwd>
				<kwd>Echocardiography</kwd>
				<kwd>Magnetic Resonance Imaging</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
			<funding-group>
				<funding-statement><bold>Sources of Funding:</bold> There were no external funding sources for this study.</funding-statement>
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		<sec sec-type="cases">
			<title>Case Report</title>
			<p>A 58-years-old female patient was admitted with retrosternal chest pain described as a continuous, oppressive tightness that had started two days earlier, after a tooth extraction procedure performed under ineffective local anesthesia. The patient’s past medical history included diabetes, dyslipidemia, and ovarian cancer, and she was receiving aspirin, rosuvastatin, metformin, dapagliflozin, and semaglutide. Physical examination was unremarkable. The chest pain protocol was initiated, and the initial electrocardiogram showed sinus rhythm with left anterior fascicular block, early repolarization in the inferior leads, and T-wave inversion in aVL, V1, and V2 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1A</xref>). The patient received 5 mg of sublingual isosorbide dinitrate, and blood samples were collected for laboratory testing. High-sensitivity troponin T (hs-cTnT) was 171 ng/L, confirming myocardial injury. An initial diagnosis of non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) was made, and the patient underwent coronary angiography (CA) for anatomic assessment (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1</xref> / Video S1).</p>
			<p>
				<fig id="f01">
					<label>Figure 1</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– Initial Electrocardiogram and Percutaneous Angiography Findings. A) Initial electrocardiogram demonstrating T-wave inversion in aVL, V1 and V2. B) CA revealed a SCA emerging from the right coronary sinus with anomalous course anterior to the right ventricle (RV) conus and providing the left branches. No coronary stenosis was identified. C) Aortography revealed no abnormalities. D-E) Left ventriculography in diastole (D) and systole (E) demonstrating mid-ventricle akinesia and balooning.</title>
					</caption>
					<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf01.tif"/>
				</fig>
			</p>
			<media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-m01.mp4">
				<label>Video S1</label>
				<caption>
					<title>– Percutaneous CA and Left Ventriculography. View: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link>
					</title>
				</caption>
			</media>
			<p>Angiography revealed a single right coronary artery (RCA), which was further evaluated by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f02">Figure 2</xref>). The left coronary branches originated from a large right marginal branch, with an anomalous course anterior to the right ventricular conus, followed by an ascending course of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery in the interventricular sulcus and subsequent branching into the circumflex (CX) and obtuse marginal (OM) arteries. However, no evidence of plaque or stenosis was identified. Left ventriculography (Video S1) revealed regional wall motion abnormalities, with midventricular akinesia and balooning, which were further confirmed by echocardiography (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figure 3</xref>/Video S2). These findings are typically described as the midventricular phenotype of stress cardiomyopathy (SCM).</p>
			<p>
				<fig id="f02">
					<label>Figure 2</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– CCTA Findings. 3D rendered cardiac (A-B) and coronary reconstruction (C-E) better depicted coronary anatomy. 1) Single RCA emerging from the right sinus with normal course through the atrioventricular sulcus. 2) Elongated right marginal artery coursing anterior to the right ventricle conus to reach the anterior interventricular sulcus. 3) Anterior interventricular branch with ascending course with septal and diagonal branches (LAD artery territory). 4) Left atrioventricular branch coursing laterally and branching into left OM branches (left CX artery territory).</title>
					</caption>
					<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf02.tif"/>
				</fig>
			</p>
			<p>
				<fig id="f03">
					<label>Figure 3</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) Findings. A-B) TTE Four-chamber view in diastole (A) and systole (B) demonstrating mid inferoseptal segment akinesia and bulging (white arrowhead). C-D) Parasternal long-axis view in diastole (C) and systole (D) demonstrating mid anteroseptal segment akinesia and bulging (yellow arrowhead). E-F) Two-chamber view in diastole (E) and systole (F) demonstrating mid inferior akinesia (red arrowhead) and mid anterior hypokinesia (blue arrowhead). TTE confirmed previous left ventriculography findings, which were suggestive of SCM.</title>
					</caption>
					<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf03.tif"/>
				</fig>
			</p>
			<media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-m02.mp4">
				<label>Video S2</label>
				<caption>
					<title>– Transthoracic Echocardiography. View: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link>
					</title>
				</caption>
			</media>
			<p>The patient received supportive care, with improvement in pain and a decrease in hs-cTnT to 39 ng/L. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), performed four days later, before hospital discharge, revealed a preserved ejection fraction with mild hypokinesia of the midventricular anterior and septal walls (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f04">Figure 4</xref>/Video S3). The T2-weighted short tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequence demonstrated edema in the mid-anterior and septal walls, with mild mid-wall late gadolinium enhancement, interpreted as a subacute finding of SCM. The patient was discharged after seven days, with complete pain resolution and no complications during hospitalization.</p>
			<p>
				<fig id="f04">
					<label>Figure 4</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Findings (CMR). Steady-state free precession (SSFP) cine images were acquired in two-chamber view in diastole (A) and systole (B) and revealed mid anterior segment hypokinesia (green arrows). Phase-sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in the same view (C), revealed patchy mid-wall enhancement in mid anterior and mid inferior segments (green arrows). Systolic cine (D), Short-tau inversion recovery (STIR) and PSIR imagens in mid-ventricle short axis view (E and F respectively) demonstrate mid anterior and anteroseptal hypokinesia, transmural oedema (E) and patchy mid-wall LGE (F) in mid anterior, anteroseptal, inferoseptal and inferior segments (red arrows). Four-chamber view systolic cine (G), STIR (H) and PSIR (I) images demonstrated hypokinesia, oedema and patchy mid-wall LGE in mid inferoseptal segment (yellow arrows).</title>
					</caption>
					<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf04.tif"/>
				</fig>
			</p>
			<media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-m03.mp4">
				<label>Video S3</label>
				<caption>
					<title>– Cine Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Sequences. View: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link>
					</title>
				</caption>
			</media>
		</sec>
		<sec sec-type="discussion">
			<title>Discussion</title>
			<p>Isolated single coronary artery (SCA) is a rare congenital anomaly in which a single artery arises from a single coronary ostium and supplies the entire myocardium, branching in different patterns to perfuse the coronary territories.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> Although most patients remain asymptomatic, some variants, particularly those with interarterial and intramural courses, may promote exercise-induced ischemia because of extrinsic compression caused by increased pulsation of the aorta and pulmonary artery. These patients are at increased risk of sudden cardiac death during exercise, particularly younger patients under 30 years of age, with a left coronary artery following an interarterial and intramural course.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> In addition, an acute-angle takeoff and a tortuous course may result in abnormal blood flow and predispose to atherosclerotic disease because of endothelial injury.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
			<p>Recent reports have described SCM in patients with SCA, even in the absence of an interarterial course.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> SCM is an acute and transient myocardial injury characterized by myocardial stunning, that is, transient regional left ventricular systolic dysfunction, triggered by an emotionally or physically stressful event. The classic presentation of SCM, known as Takotsubo syndrome consists of apical and midventricular akinesia, hypokinesia, or dyskinesia associated with basal hyperkinesia, resulting in apical ballooning. However, other phenotypes have also been described, including the midventricular pattern observed in the present case.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup> The mechanism of myocardial injury remains unclear. It has been hypothesized that dysregulation of the central autonomic nervous system and increased levels of stress-related neuropeptides may promote microvascular constriction, impaired perfusion, and ischemic stunning.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup></p>
			<p>Gräni et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> reported a case of a single RCA with a deep subpulmonary intraseptal course of the LAD/CX, presenting with the classic apical ballooning phenotype of SCM (Takotsubo syndrome). Despite the absence of an interarterial course, the transeptal path was hypothesized to contribute to vasospasm, endothelial dysfunction, and SCM. However, extrinsic compression as a potential mechanism was not observed in other reports.</p>
			<p>Neiva et al<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup> described a similar case of a single RCA, with hypoplastic LAD and CX arteries arising from a posterolateral branch that coursed anterior to the right ventricular conus, presenting with classic SCM and complete remission after seven days. Salazar Marín et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> reported a case of a single RCA with a different branching pattern, characterized by independent origins of the LAD and CX, with prepulmonary and retroaortic courses, respectively, associated with classic SCM.</p>
			<p>Across these reports, the anomalous origin of the LAD and CX was a common finding, though without the typical high-risk features for ischemia. However, Miura et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> described a left SCA coursing in the posterior sulcus, supplying the posterior descending and posterior left ventricular arteries, and presenting with the same SCM phenotype. A specific epicardial coronary artery distribution alone could not explain the occurrence of SCM in these patients, and the mechanism of myocardial injury remains unclear. All reported cases, including the present one, had a favorable prognosis with complete remission of symptoms.</p>
		</sec>
		<sec sec-type="conclusions">
			<title>Conclusion</title>
			<p>This case is the first to describe the association between a distinct SCM phenotype, the midventricular form, and an isolated right SCA. The potential association between SCM and SCA is of increasing interest, given the growing number of reports despite the rarity of SCA. However, the mechanism predisposing patients with SCA to SCM remains unknown, and a high-risk coronary course alone was absent in most previous reports, as well as in the present case.</p>
		</sec>
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				<label>Study Association:</label>
				<p> This study is not associated with any thesis or dissertation work.</p>
			</fn>
			<fn fn-type="other">
				<label>Ethics Approval and Consent to Participate:</label>
				<p> This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hospital Sírio Libanês / Sociedade Beneficente de Senhoras under the protocol number 7.226.271. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.</p>
			</fn>
			<fn fn-type="other">
				<label>Use of Artificial Intelligence:</label>
				<p> The authors did not use any artificial intelligence tools in the development of this work.</p>
			</fn>
			<fn fn-type="data-availability" specific-use="data-in-article">
				<label>Availability of Research Data:</label>
				<p> The underlying content of the research text is contained within the manuscript.</p>
			</fn>
			<fn fn-type="financial-disclosure">
				<label>Sources of Funding:</label>
				<p> There were no external funding sources for this study.</p>
			</fn>
		</fn-group>
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		<front-stub>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abcimg.20260023</article-id>
			<article-categories>
				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Relato de Caso</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>Artéria Coronária Única e Cardiomiopatia de Estresse: Uma Associação Demonstrada por Imagem Multimodal</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-4959-0489</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Ferreira</surname>
						<given-names>Marcus Vinicius Silva</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Concepção e desenho da pesquisa</role>
					<role>Obtenção de dados</role>
					<role>Redação do manuscrito</role>
					<role>Revisão crítica do manuscrito quanto ao conteúdo intelectual importante</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0007-6664-9186</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Tormin</surname>
						<given-names>Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Concepção e desenho da pesquisa</role>
					<role>Obtenção de dados</role>
					<role>Redação do manuscrito</role>
					<role>Revisão crítica do manuscrito quanto ao conteúdo intelectual importante</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-3053-3583</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Dantas</surname>
						<given-names>Roberto Nery</given-names>
						<suffix>Jr</suffix>
					</name>
					<role>Concepção e desenho da pesquisa</role>
					<role>Análise e interpretação dos dados</role>
					<role>Revisão crítica do manuscrito quanto ao conteúdo intelectual importante</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-5547-6821</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Torres</surname>
						<given-names>Roberto Vitor Almeida</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Análise e interpretação dos dados</role>
					<role>Revisão crítica do manuscrito quanto ao conteúdo intelectual importante</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0001-7827-9115</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Cordeiro</surname>
						<given-names>Renan Andreos</given-names>
					</name>
					<role>Obtenção de dados</role>
					<role>Revisão crítica do manuscrito quanto ao conteúdo intelectual importante</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-8627-3661</contrib-id>
					<name>
						<surname>Araújo</surname>
						<given-names>José de Arimateia Batista</given-names>
						<suffix>Filho</suffix>
					</name>
					<role>Concepção e desenho da pesquisa</role>
					<role>Revisão crítica do manuscrito quanto ao conteúdo intelectual importante</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
					<name>
						<surname>Cardoso</surname>
						<given-names>Luiz Francisco</given-names>
					</name>
					<role> Obtenção de dados</role>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1002"><sup>1</sup></xref>
				</contrib>
			</contrib-group>
			<aff id="aff1002">
				<label>1</label>
				<country country="BR">Brasil</country>
				<institution content-type="original">Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, SP – Brasil</institution>
			</aff>
			<author-notes>
				<corresp id="c01002">
					<label>Correspondência:</label> Marcus Vinicius Silva Ferreira Hospital Sírio-Libânes. Rua Dona Adma Jafet, 115. CEP: 01308-050. São Paulo, SP – Brasil E-mail: marcusvsferreira@gmail.com </corresp>
				<fn fn-type="coi-statement">
					<label>Potencial Conflito de Interesse:</label>
					<p> Declaro não haver conflito de interesses pertinentes.</p>
				</fn>
				<fn fn-type="edited-by">
					<label>Editor responsável pela revisão:</label>
					<p> Marcelo Tavares</p>
				</fn>
			</author-notes>
			<kwd-group xml:lang="pt">
				<title>Palavras-chave:</title>
				<kwd>Vasos Coronários</kwd>
				<kwd>Cardiomiopatia de Takotsubo</kwd>
				<kwd>Angiografia Coronária</kwd>
				<kwd>Ecocardiografia</kwd>
				<kwd>Cinerressonância Magnética</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
		</front-stub>
		<body>
			<sec sec-type="cases">
				<title>Estudo de caso</title>
				<p>Paciente do sexo feminino, de 58 anos, admitida por dor torácica retroesternal descrita como aperto opressivo contínuo, iniciado dois dias antes, após procedimento de extração dentária realizado sob anestesia local ineficaz. Apresentava antecedentes de diabetes mellitus, dislipidemia e câncer de ovário, em uso de ácido acetilsalicílico, rosuvastatina, metformina, dapagliflozina e semaglutida. O exame físico não evidenciou alterações. Foi iniciado o protocolo para dor torácica, e o eletrocardiograma inicial evidenciou ritmo sinusal com bloqueio divisional anterossuperior esquerdo, repolarização precoce nas derivações inferiores e inversão da onda T em aVL, V1 e V2 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01002">Figura 1A</xref>). A paciente recebeu 5 mg de dinitrato de isossorbida por via sublingual, e foram coletadas amostras para exames laboratoriais. A troponina T de alta sensibilidade (hs-cTnT) foi de 171 ng/L, confirmando lesão miocárdica. Estabeleceu-se o diagnóstico inicial de infarto do miocárdio sem supradesnivelamento do segmento ST (IAMSSST), e a paciente foi submetida à cineangiocoronariografia para avaliação anatômica (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01002">Figura 1</xref> / Vídeo S1).</p>
				<p>
					<fig id="f01002">
						<label>Figura 1</label>
						<caption>
							<title>– Eletrocardiograma Inicial e Achados da Angiografia Percutânea. A) Eletrocardiograma inicial demonstrando inversão da onda T em aVL, V1 e V2. B) A angiografia coronariana revelou uma artéria coronária única emergindo do seio coronariano direito, com trajeto anômalo anterior ao cone do ventrículo direito (VD) e fornecendo os ramos esquerdos. Não foi identificada estenose coronariana. C) A aortografia não revelou anormalidades. D-E) Ventriculografia esquerda em diástole (D) e sístole (E), demonstrando acinesia do segmento médio do ventrículo e abaulamento.</title>
						</caption>
						<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf01-pt.tif"/>
					</fig>
				</p>
				<media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-m01-pt.mp4">
					<label>Vídeo S1</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– AC percutânea e ventriculografia esquerda. Em: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link>
						</title>
					</caption>
				</media>
				<p>A angiografia revelou uma artéria coronária direita (CD) única, posteriormente avaliada por angiotomografia computadorizada das artérias coronárias (ATCC; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f02002">Figura 2</xref>). Os ramos coronarianos esquerdos originavam-se de um grande ramo marginal direito, com trajeto anômalo anterior ao cone do ventrículo direito, seguido de trajeto ascendente da artéria descendente anterior (DA) no sulco interventricular e posterior bifurcação em artéria circunflexa (CX) e artérias marginais esquerdas (MGE). No entanto, não foram observadas placas ateroscleróticas nem estenoses. A ventriculografia esquerda (Vídeo S1) revelou alterações segmentares da contratilidade, com acinesia médio-ventricular e abaulamento, posteriormente confirmadas pela ecocardiografia (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03002">Figura 3</xref>/Vídeo S2). Esses achados são usualmente descritos como o fenótipo médio-ventricular da cardiomiopatia induzida por estresse (CIE).</p>
				<p>
					<fig id="f02002">
						<label>Figura 2</label>
						<caption>
							<title>– Achados da Angiotomografia Computadorizada das Artérias Coronárias (ATCC). Reconstruções cardíacas (A-B) e coronarianas (C-E) renderizadas em 3D pela ATCC permitiram melhor visualização da anatomia coronariana. 1) Artéria coronária direita (CD) única emergindo do seio coronariano direito, com trajeto normal pelo sulco atrioventricular; 2) Artéria marginal direita alongada, com trajeto anterior ao cone do ventrículo direito, alcançando o sulco interventricular anterior; 3) Ramo interventricular anterior com trajeto ascendente, emitindo ramos septais e diagonais (território da artéria DA esquerda); 4) Ramo atrioventricular esquerdo com trajeto lateral, ramificando-se em ramos marginais obtusos esquerdos (território da artéria CX esquerda).</title>
						</caption>
						<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf02-pt.tif"/>
					</fig>
				</p>
				<p>
					<fig id="f03002">
						<label>Figura 3</label>
						<caption>
							<title>– Achados ao Ecocardiograma Transtorácico (ETT). A-B) ETT em incidência apical quatro câmaras em diástole (A) e sístole (B), demonstrando acinesia e abaulamento sistólico (ballooning) do segmento inferosseptal médio (ponta de seta branca). C-D) Incidência paraesternal longitudinal em diástole (C) e sístole (D), demonstrando acinesia e abaulamento do segmento anterosseptal médio (ponta de seta amarela). E-F) Incidência apical duas câmaras em diástole (E) e sístole (F), demonstrando acinesia inferior média (ponta de seta vermelha) e hipocinesia anterior média (ponta de seta azul). O ETT confirmou os achados prévios da ventriculografia esquerda, sugestivos de CIE.</title>
						</caption>
						<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf03-pt.tif"/>
					</fig>
				</p>
				<media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-m02-pt.mp4">
					<label>Vídeo S1</label>
					<label>Vídeo S2</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– Ecocardiograma transtorácico. Em: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link>
						</title>
					</caption>
				</media>
				<p>A paciente recebeu tratamento de suporte, com melhora da dor e redução da hs-cTnT para 39 ng/L. A ressonância magnética cardíaca (RMC), realizada quatro dias depois, antes da alta hospitalar, demonstrou fração de ejeção preservada, com discreta hipocinesia das paredes anterior e septal do segmento médio do ventrículo esquerdo (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f04002">Figura 4/</xref> Vídeo S3). A sequência ponderada em T2 com técnica short tau inversion recovery (STIR) evidenciou edema nas paredes anterior e septal médias, com discreto realce tardio pelo gadolínio em padrão mesocárdico, interpretado como achado subagudo de CIE. A paciente recebeu alta após sete dias, com remissão da dor e sem intercorrências durante a internação.</p>
				<p>
					<fig id="f04002">
						<label>Figura 4</label>
						<caption>
							<title>– Achados da RMC. Imagens cine em sequência de precessão livre em estado estacionário (SSFP) foram adquiridas na visão de duas câmaras em diástole (A) e sístole (B), revelando hipocinesia do segmento anterior médio (setas verdes). A técnica de recuperação de inversão sensível à fase (PSIR) com realce tardio por gadolínio (LGE), na mesma incidência (C), evidenciou realce heterogêneo mesocárdico nos segmentos anterior médio e inferior médio (setas verdes). As imagens cine sistólicas (D), bem como as imagens em sequência de recuperação de inversão com tempo curto (STIR) e PSIR na visão em eixo curto do ventrículo médio (E e F, respectivamente), demonstraram hipocinesia dos segmentos anterior médio e anterosseptal, edema transmural (E) e realce tardio mesocárdico heterogêneo (F) nos segmentos anterior médio, anterosseptal, inferosseptal e inferior (setas vermelhas). Na visão de quatro câmaras, as imagens cine sistólicas (G), STIR (H) e PSIR (I) demonstraram hipocinesia, edema e realce tardio mesocárdico heterogêneo no segmento inferosseptal médio (setas amarelas).</title>
						</caption>
						<graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-gf04-pt.tif"/>
					</fig>
				</p>
				<media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-m03-pt.mp4">
					<label>Vídeo S3</label>
					<caption>
						<title>– Sequências cine de RMC. Em: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link>
						</title>
					</caption>
				</media>
			</sec>
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				<title>Discussão</title>
				<p>A artéria coronária única isolada (ACU) é uma anomalia congênita rara em que uma única artéria se origina de um único óstio coronariano e irriga todo o miocárdio, ramificando-se em diferentes padrões para perfundir os territórios coronarianos.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> Embora a maioria dos pacientes permaneça assintomática, algumas variantes, particularmente aquelas com trajeto interarterial e intramural, podem favorecer isquemia induzida por esforço em decorrência de compressão extrínseca causada pelo aumento da pulsação da aorta e da artéria pulmonar. Esses pacientes apresentam maior risco de morte súbita cardíaca durante o exercício, particularmente os mais jovens, com menos de 30 anos de idade, apresentando artéria coronária esquerda com trajeto interarterial e intramural.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> Além disso, origem em ângulo agudo e trajeto tortuoso podem resultar em fluxo sanguíneo anormal e predispor à doença aterosclerótica em razão de lesão endotelial.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
				<p>Relatos recentes descreveram CIE em pacientes com ACU, mesmo na ausência de trajeto interarterial.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> A CIE é uma lesão miocárdica aguda e transitória caracterizada por atordoamento miocárdico, isto é, disfunção sistólica regional transitória do ventrículo esquerdo, desencadeada por um evento estressor emocional ou físico. Sua apresentação clássica, conhecida como síndrome de Takotsubo, consiste em acinesia, hipocinesia ou discinesia ventricular médio-apical, associada à hipercinesia basal, resultando em balonamento apical. No entanto, outros fenótipos também foram descritos, incluindo o padrão médio-ventricular observado no presente caso.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup> O mecanismo da lesão miocárdica ainda não está completamente elucidado. Discute-se que a desregulação do sistema nervoso autônomo central e o aumento dos níveis de neuropeptídeos relacionados ao estresse possam promover vasoconstrição microvascular, comprometimento da perfusão e atordoamento isquêmico.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup></p>
				<p>Gräni et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> relataram um caso de CD única com trajeto intrasseptal subpulmonar profundo da DA/CX, apresentando o fenótipo clássico de balonamento apical da CIE (síndrome de Takotsubo). Apesar da ausência de trajeto interarterial, o trajeto transeptal foi apontado como possível causa de vasoespasmo, disfunção endotelial e CIE. Entretanto, a compressão extrínseca como mecanismo potencial não foi observada em outros relatos.</p>
				<p>Neiva et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup> descreveram um caso semelhante de CD única, com DA e CX hipoplásicas originando-se de um ramo posterolateral com trajeto anterior ao cone do ventrículo direito, apresentando CIE clássica com remissão completa após sete dias. Salazar Marín et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> relataram um caso de CD única com padrão de ramificação distinto, caracterizado por origem independente de DA e CX, com trajetos pré-pulmonar e retroaórtico, respectivamente, associado à CIE clássica.</p>
				<p>Nos relatos descritos, a origem anômala da DA e da CX foi um achado comum, porém sem características típicas de alto risco associadas à isquemia. No entanto, Miura et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> descreveram uma artéria coronária esquerda única com trajeto no sulco posterior, irrigando a artéria descendente posterior e a artéria ventricular posterior esquerda, apresentando o mesmo fenótipo de CIE. A distribuição territorial específica das artérias coronárias epicárdicas, por si só, não explica a ocorrência de CIE nesses pacientes, e o mecanismo da lesão miocárdica permanece incerto. Todos os casos relatados, incluindo o presente, evoluíram com bom prognóstico e remissão completa dos sintomas.</p>
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				<p>Este caso é o primeiro a descrever a associação entre um fenótipo distinto de CIE, o médio-ventricular, e uma CD isolada. A possível associação entre CIE e ACU tem despertado interesse em razão do número crescente de relatos, apesar da raridade da ACU. No entanto, o mecanismo que predispõe pacientes com ACU à CIE permanece desconhecido, e um trajeto coronariano de alto risco, isoladamente, esteve ausente na maioria dos relatos prévios, bem como no presente caso.</p>
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