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Table 3 Prevalence of coronary anomalies in previous published studies

From: The prevalence of coronary anomalies in a single center of Korea: origination, course, and termination anomalies of aberrant coronary arteries detected by ECG-gated cardiac MDCT

Author/year of publication

Prevalence (%)

Most common coronary anomaly

Imaging modality

Country

Yamanaka et al. 1990 [1]

1.30 (1,686 of 126,595)

Absent LMCA with separate origin of LAD and LCX

CAG

USA

Kaku et al. 1996 [2]

0.31 (56 of 17,731)

Anomalous origin of RCA from LSV

CAG

Japan

Kardos et al. 1997 [3]

1.34 (103 of 7,694)

Absent LMCA with separate origin of LAD and LCX

CAG

Central Europe

Garg et al. 2000 [4]

0.95 (39 of 4,100

Anomalous origin of RCA from LSV/NAS

CAG

India

Yildiz et al. 2010 [5]

0.90 (112 of 12,457)

Absent LMCA with separate origin of LAD and LCX

CAG

Turkey

Erol et al. 2011 [6]

1.96 (53 of 2,096)

Absent LMCA with separate origin of LAD and LCX/Origin of RCA from LSV

64MDCT

Turkey

Fujimoto et al. 2011 [7]

1.52 (89 of 5,869)

Anomalous origin of RCA from LSV

64MDCT

Japan

Sivri et al. 2012 [8]

0.74 (95 of 12,814)

LCX arising from RSV or RCA

CAG

Turkey

Sohrabi et al. 2012 [9]

1.30 (79 of 6,065)

Absent LMCA with separate origin of LAD and LCX

CAG

Iran

Xu et al. 2012 [10]

1.02 (124 of 12,415)

Anomalous origin of RCA from LSV

Dual-source CTCA

China

Yukel et al. 2013 [11]

0.29 (48 of 16,573)

Anomalous origin of LCX from RCA/RSV

CAG

Turkey