Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002; 50(2): 109-111
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-26695
Case Report
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Iatrogenic Coronary Artery Fistula
in a Patient with a Single Coronary
Artery

H.  Gasparovic1 , W.  Novick2 , D.  Anic1 , D.  Belina1 , Z.  Gjergja3 , I.  Jelic1
  • 1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 2Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA
  • 3Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia
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Publication History

Publication Date:
30 April 2002 (online)

Abstract

Here, we report on a case of coronary artery fistula that developed following the repair of a double-outlet right ventricle (DORV) with infundibular pulmonary stenosis in a patient who has a single coronary artery. The major concern in this case was that of reduction of coronary blood flow from the patient's only coronary artery to the myocardium distal to the fistula.

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Correspondence

Hrvoje GasparovicMD 

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Rebro

Kispaticeva 12

10000 Zagreb

Croatia

Phone: + 385-1-2388-647.

Fax: + 385-1-2421-595

Email: hgasparovic@yahoo.com

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