Aberrant right coronary artery occlusion during the percutaneous pulmonary trunk stenting in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot

Heart Vessels. 2008 Mar;23(2):140-3. doi: 10.1007/s00380-007-1023-8. Epub 2008 Apr 4.

Abstract

Aberrant coronary arteries are frequently observed in patients presenting with Fallot's tetralogy (TOF). Before the complete surgical repair of the TOF, the percutaneously performed pulmonary trunk (PT) angioplasty is often performed in order to temporarily increase the pulmonary circulation, thus increasing the pulmonary vessel size, finally improving surgical outcome. This case reports a 12-year-old boy with a TOF insufficiently improved by surgical correction, in whom a PT angioplasty with stent implantation was complicated by an extrinsic compression of an aberrant right coronary artery (RCA) causing a myocardial ischemia with severe hypotension. The RCA, originating from the left anterior descending coronary artery, passed through the aortic root and the PT and was thus compressed by the PT-stent. Finally the RCA was successfully treated with standard coronary balloon angioplasty and stenting, improving myocardial perfusion and the hemodynamics of the patient, who finally died several days thereafter due to septic shock and massive pulmonary embolism.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angioplasty, Balloon / adverse effects*
  • Angioplasty, Balloon / instrumentation
  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / instrumentation
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures
  • Child
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Circulation
  • Coronary Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Stenosis / etiology*
  • Coronary Stenosis / therapy
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / complications*
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / physiopathology
  • Coronary Vessel Anomalies / therapy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Hypotension / etiology
  • Male
  • Myocardial Ischemia / etiology
  • Pulmonary Circulation
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / complications
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / physiopathology
  • Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / therapy*
  • Stents*
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / complications
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / diagnostic imaging
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / physiopathology
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / therapy*