Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

cañón de escopeta

English translation:

double barrel

Added to glossary by Charles Davis
Feb 19, 2016 00:38
8 yrs ago
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Spanish term

cañón de escopeta

Spanish to English Medical Medical: Cardiology
This is found on a coronary angiography report:
TCI muy corto, practicamente salida en cañón de escopeta
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Mar 4, 2016 04:43: Charles Davis Created KOG entry

Discussion

Joseph Tein Feb 19, 2016:
more context? Are they describing an artery? a stent placed in the artery? More information would help. I find this that may be pertinent, but there's not enough to go on here: "We describe a case of double-barrel left main coronary artery stenting into the first obtuse marginal branch ..."

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double barrel

Although there is not much context, I don't think there can really be much doubt about what this refers to. Normally the left coronary artery (LCA, to which TCI refers here) arises from the aorta, runs for 10-25 mm and then bifurcates into the left circumflex (LCx) and the left anterior descending (LAD) arteries. There is an anatomical anomaly in which LCA is absent and LCx and LAD arise directly from the aorta, from separate ostia. This is known as cañón de escopeta in Spanish and as double barrel in English. Our text is saying that TCI (LCA) is very short in this patient, so short that this is almost a case of double barrel.

'La anomalía más frecuente son los orígenes separados de la DA y CX en la aorta (esto es, la ausencia de TCI, que vulgarmente se llama "cañón de escopeta"), que se da en el 0,4-1% de las personas'
http://gredos.usal.es/jspui/bitstream/10366/83210/1/DAHH_Cas... (p. 25).

'Absent Left Main Trunk (Separate Ostia of Left Anterior Descending and LCX)
Likely the most common coronary anomaly (incidence ~0.47%), separate ostia of the two main branches of the LCA is often referred to as a "double barrel"'
Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, p. 139
https://books.google.es/books?id=7GByCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&lpg=P...
Peer comment(s):

agree Joseph Tein : Brilliant research and explanation ... looks really simple and obvious after you explain it.
26 mins
Many thanks, Joe :)
agree Robert Carter : Agree with Joseph (and you of course), very well explained.
12 hrs
Thanks very much, Robert :)
agree Thomas Walker : Issue resolved, & ignorance of a fellow translator reduced a bit.
16 hrs
LOL! Thanks, Tom ;)
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La oclusión completa de tronco coronario izquierdo (TCI) es una entidad de extrema gravedad y son mu

El tronco común izquierdo (TCI) estaba ocluido a un nivel muy proximal (Figura 1A). ... Total occlusion of the left main coronary artery - a clinical, hemodynamic and angiographic profile.
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La oclusión completa de tronco coronario izquierdo (TCI) es una entidad de extrema gravedad

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