Hybrid therapy for rapid enlargement of hibernating coronary arteriovenous fistulas.
The use of hybrid therapy for recurrent multiple coronary arteriovenous fistulas in a 56-year-old woman is reported. The patient underwent surgical closure of a coronary arteriovenous fistula of the right coronary artery under cardiopulmonary bypass at 47 years of age. Reoperation was required 9 years later for recurrence of the same fistula. It was divided under a beating heart. Early postoperative angiography showed complete occlusion of the right coronary fistula. However, hibernating fistulas of the left circumflex artery, which had been left untouched because of insignificant shunt with no remarkable change for 9 years, increased in size rapidly. Transcatheter embolization was successfully performed for these residual fistulas.
Oyamada
Shizu
S
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
Kobayashi
Junjiro
J
Tagusari
Osamu
O
Niwaya
Kazuo
K
Nakajima
Hiroyuki
H
Miyazaki
Shunichi
S
Kimura
Kohji
K
Echigo
Shigeyuki
S
Kitamura
Soichiro
S
D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006337:Heart Murmurs / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010092:Oximetry; D012008:Recurrence; D019233:Retreatment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods