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Spontaneous closure of arterio-venous pulmonary fistulas by redirection of hepatic venous blood 9 years after Glenn anastomosis in a 12-year-old girl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2019

Katarzyna Gendera*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Germany
Andreas Eicken
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Germany
Peter Ewert
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Germany
*
Author for correspondence: Katarzyna Gendera, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Germany, Lazarettstr. 36, 80636 München. Tel: +48 509717844; Fax: +49 (0) 89 1218-3013; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We report on a 12-year-old girl with Ebstein’s anomaly after a unidirectional Glenn procedure with surgical ligation of the proximal right pulmonary artery, who suffered from significant central cyanosis caused by multiple arterio-venous fistulas in the right lung. The continuity between the right pulmonary artery and the pulmonary trunk was restored with the use of radiofrequency perforation and consecutive covered stent implantation.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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