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Case Report Kulchetscki et al Coronary artery fistula - clinical treatment Arq Bras Cardiol. 2019; 112(2):211-213 1. Dourado LO, Góis AF, Hueb W, Cesar LA. Large bilateral coronary artery fistula: the choice of clinical treatment. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2009;93(3):e48-9. 2. Said SA, van der Werf T. Dutch survey of congenital coronary artery fistulas in adults: coronary artery-left ventricular multiplemicro-fistulas multi-center observational survey in the Netherlands. Int J Cardiol. 2006;110(1):33-9. 3. Verdini D, Vargas D, Kuo A, Ghoshhajra B, Kim P, Murillo H, et al. Coronary-pulmonary artery fistulas: a systematic review. J Thorac Imaging. 2016;31(6):380-90. 4. Said SA, Nijhuis RL, Akker JW, Takechi M, Slart RH, Bos JS, et al. Unilateral and multilateral congenital coronary-pulmonary fistulas in adults: clinical presentation, diagnostic modalities, and management with a brief review of the literature. Clin Cardiol. 2014;37(9):536-45. 5. Agarwal PP, Dennie C, Pena E, Nguyen E, LaBounty T, Yang B, et al. Anomalous coronary arteries that need intervention: review of pre- and postoperative imaging appearances. Radiographics. 2017;37(3):740-57. 6. Said SA. Congenital coronary artery fistulas complicated with pulmonary hypertension: analysis of 211 cases. World J Cardiol. 2016;8(10):596-605. 7. Chen BH, Lin CC, Weng KP, Wu HW, Chien JH, Huang SM, et al. Echocardiographic diagnosis of incidentally found left coronary artery to pulmonary artery fistula in an 11-year-old girl. Acta Cardiol Sin. 2016;32(3):359-62. 8. Lee SN, Lee J, Ji EY, Jang BH, LeeHH, Moon KW. Percutaneous management of coronary artery-to-pulmonary artery fistula using an amplatzer vascular plug with the trans-radial approach. Intern Med. 2016;55(8):929-33. 9. Said SM, Burkhart HM, Schaff HV, Connolly HM, Phillips SD, Suri RM, et al. Late outcome of repair of congenital coronary artery fistulas--a word of caution. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013;145(2):455-60. 10. Raju MG, Goyal SK, Punnam SR, Shah DO, Smith GF, Abela GS. Coronary artery fistula: a case series with review of the literature. J Cardiol. 2009;53(3):467-72. References This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License asymptomatic patients and / or those without complications, as the one described in this case report. In symptomatic or complicated patients, however, percutaneous or surgical interventions are indicated. This report shows, once again, the need for the individualization of management in the presence of the diagnosis of asymptomatic coronary artery fistula. Author contributions Conception and design of the research and analysis and interpretation of the data: Kulchetscki RM, Lechinewski LD, Dourado L; acquisition of data: Kulchetscki RM, Lechinewski LD, Hueb WA, César LAM; writing of the manuscript: Kulchetscki RM, Lechinewski LD, Dourado L, César LAM; critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Dourado L, César LAM. Potential Conflict of Interest No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. Sources of Funding There were no external funding sources for this study. Study Association This study is not associatedwith any thesis or dissertationwork. 213