Management of neonatal bronchovenous fistula after cardiopulmonary bypass.
Bronchovenous fistula is occasionally encountered after traumatic lung injury or, in neonates, due to ventilation injuries with high ventilatory pressures. We report a case of massive air embolism associated with a bronchopulmonary venous communication in an infant post-repair of truncus arteriosus. Selective ventilation of the opposite lung for 3 days sealed the fistula.
Reinhartz
Olaf
O
Department of Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, 94143, USA. orein@itsa.ucsf.edu
DeSilva
Anil M
AM
Hanley
Frank L
FL
D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011667:Pulmonary Veins; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D014339:Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / Q000601:surgery; D016157:Vascular Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*