Successful surgical treatment for a single coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery.
The case of a 17-day-old infant who underwent correction of an aortic coarctation with pulmonary artery banding for ventricular septal defect is reported. Ischemic cardiac failure 3 weeks later led the authors to diagnose a single coronary artery originating from the pulmonary artery. At the age of 2 months, the infant underwent successful reimplantation of the coronary artery onto the ascending aorta and surgical closure of the septal defect. Normalization of the left ventricular function was observed at the 2-year follow-up assessment.
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Department of Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Clocheville Hospital, CHRU Tours, Francois Rabelais University, Saint Avertin, France. alamir@club-internet.fr
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Legendre
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Neville
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D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000601:surgery*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*