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Endovascular stenting of the left pulmonary artery using the Strecker stent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Anton van Oort ,
Ronald Tanke  and
Christine van de Kaa
Anton van Oort*
Affiliation:
From the Academic Children's Heart CentreUniversity Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen
Ronald Tanke
Affiliation:
From the Academic Children's Heart CentreUniversity Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen
Christine van de Kaa
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen
*
Dr. Anton van Oort, Academic Children’s Heart Centre, University Hospital Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Tel. 31-80 614427; Fax. 31-80 540576.
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Abstract

An intravascular stent was successfully implanted in a 15-year-old gid with stenosis of the left pulmonary artery subsequent to a modified Fontan correction. Complaints of tiredness, edema, ascites and enlargement of the left breast disappeared. Unfortunately, she died of a rhythm disturbance unrelated to the stent. Autopsy revealed excellent endothelialization of the stent without any thrombosis and with patency of the orifice of the branch to the upper lobe of the lung.

Keywords

Endovascular stentscanning electron photomicrographycongenital heart diseaseFontanprotein-losing enteropathy
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 88 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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