[Bilateral coronary-pulmonary artery fistulas with a large saccular aneurysm: a case of cardiac tamponade following rupture of the coronary artery aneurysm].
A case of bilateral coronary-pulmonary artery fistulas with a large saccular aneurysm is reported as follows. The patient was a 72-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital with a complaint of abnormal shadow on chest X-ray and had the past history of cardiac tamponade. The fistula was ligated and the aneurysm was resected with the extracorporeal circulation. Her Postoperative course was uneventful. Coronary arteriography showed that bilateral coronary-pulmonary artery fistulas had completely disappeared.
First Department of Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Koyama
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Suzuki
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Fukui
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Iwabuchi
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Odagiri
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Takeuchi
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Narita
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Koyama
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Hasegawa
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Koie
D000368:Aged; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D001159:Arterio-Arterial Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology*; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications*; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery