Outcome at 26 Years After Repair of Fallot's Tetralogy With Absent Left Pulmonary Artery

World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 Sep;11(5):661-663. doi: 10.1177/2150135120932509.

Abstract

We report long-term outcome after two-stage, "one lung repair" in a four-year-old boy with tetralogy of Fallot and congenital absence of the left pulmonary artery. The operation was carried out two years after a palliative aortopulmonary central shunt and was uneventful. Twenty-six years later, the patient is in excellent clinical condition, with normal peripheral oxygen saturation. A recent radionuclide lung scan and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging show the pulmonary flow entirely directed into the right lung. In selected cases, the long-term prognosis of patients with tetralogy of Fallot and true absence of left pulmonary artery after "one lung repair" may be excellent.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiography
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Echocardiography
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Forecasting*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Prognosis
  • Pulmonary Artery / abnormalities*
  • Pulmonary Artery / surgery
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / diagnosis
  • Tetralogy of Fallot / surgery*