title: Pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and coronary-pulmonary artery fistula.
abstract: We report 2 patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and coronary-pulmonary fistula. The fistula originated from the left anterior descending artery in 1 patient, and from the right coronary artery in the other. Both patients survived staged correction in which right ventricular outflow was reconstructed with autologous fistula tissue. One patient with pulmonary hypertension suddenly died 9 months after surgery. Twenty-four patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and coronary-pulmonary fistula have been reported previously.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan. kaneko-tho@h.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okabe
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takamoto
mesh_terms: D001159:Arterio-Arterial Fistula / Q000150:complications*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000150:complications*