Surgical closure of big pulmonary artery-left atrial fistula

Rafik Margaryan; Luigi Arcieri; Massimiliano Cantinotti; Bruno Murzi

doi:10.1510/icvts.2009.215350

Surgical closure of big pulmonary artery-left atrial fistula

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Jan;10(1):113-4. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2009.215350. Epub 2009 Oct 12.

Authors

Rafik Margaryan¹, Luigi Arcieri, Massimiliano Cantinotti, Bruno Murzi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of the Heart G. Pasquinucci, Massa, Italy. [email protected]

PMID: 19822607
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.215350

Abstract

Big pulmonary artery-left atrial fistula malformation (PALAF) was diagnosed in a 5-year-old boy. Although transcatheter therapy would be preferred as a treatment of PALAF, the lesion, which was 20 mm in diameter and almost totally shunting the right main pulmonary artery, it was decided to treat by surgical approach.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiac Catheterization
Cardiac Surgical Procedures*
Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Child, Preschool
Coronary Angiography / methods
Heart Atria / abnormalities
Heart Atria / surgery
Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnosis
Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
Humans
Male
Pulmonary Artery / abnormalities
Pulmonary Artery / surgery*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome
Vascular Fistula / congenital
Vascular Fistula / diagnosis
Vascular Fistula / surgery*