Adel Younes

Dr. Adel Younes


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1Year (2026-Present)

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3 November 2026 in Preprints.org
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AYAdel Younes
Adel Younes
Christine Helena Attenhofer JostChristine Helena Attenhofer Jost
Christine Helena Attenhofer Jost
SGSteffen Glökler
Steffen Glökler
SCStefano Caselli
Stefano Caselli
SVSilvan Vesenbeckh
Silvan Vesenbeckh
MGMarco Giacchi
Marco Giacchi
Coronary artery fistulas (CAFs) are a rare, typically congenital coronary anomaly. They may cause myocardial ischemia through a coronary steal phenomenon. Acquired CAFs are exceptionally uncommon and are usually due to an intervention or trauma. We re-port the case of a 79-year-old man with history of clear cell renal cell carcinoma previ-ously treated with right nephrectomy in 2015. Seven years later, he underwent percu-taneous coronary intervention of severe LAD stenosis following out-of-hospital cardi-ac arrest. During follow-up, progressive exertional dyspnea and inducible lateral is-chemia led to repeated coronary angiography 15 months later revealing fistulous communications from the circumflex and right coronary arteries draining into a left pulmonary mass. Right-heart catheterization showed a small left-to-right shunt at rest (Qp/Qs 1.3). Thoracic computed tomography and biopsy confirmed a large pulmonary metastasis from clear cell renal cell carcinoma, suggesting that the fistulas developed as part of tumor angiogenesis. Transcatheter coil embolization would have been a strategy to reduce tumor perfusion and the coronary steal; however, we just limited our treatment to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor Axitinib due to the metastatic disease. This case describes a rare mechanism of acquired CAF formation in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.