SUCCESSFUL CLOSURE OF POST-TRAUMATIC CAROTID-JUGULAR ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA COMPLICATED BY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND CEREBROVASCULAR INSUFFICIENCY.
This report describes a patient who received a traumatic injury of the neck 28 years prior to admission to this institution. He had required multiple hospitalizations, along with medications for congestive heart failure. After ligation of a large arteriovenous fistula and replacement of a 3 cm segment of the left common carotid artery with an 8 mm double-velour graft, the patient was greatly improved.
Kakkar
Sunil
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Divisions of Cardiology and Surgery, Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals, Houston, Texas.
Angelini
Paolo
P
Leachman
Robert
R
Cooley
Denton A.
DA