title: Optimal treatment of coronary-to-pulmonary artery fistula: surgery, coil or stent graft?
abstract: We report a case of a 57-year-old man with typical angina due to a coronary artery-to-pulmonary artery fistula, which was evident on transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography with color Doppler flow mapping. The diagnosis was confirmed by coronary angiography. The patient underwent surgical ligation of the fistula. However, repeated transesophageal echocardiography and coronary angiography revealed persistence of the fistula with significant left-to-right shunt. The orifice of the fistula was then obliterated by stent-graft implantation, which was proven successful by angiography and echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Paulina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wejner-Mik
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lipiec
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Jan Zbigniew
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Peruga
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Ryszard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jaszewski
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Witold
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Pawłowski
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kasprzak
keywords: coronary artery-to-pulmonary artery fistula; stent-graft implantation