Palliating severe arteriovenous fistulae using absorbable pulmonary artery bands.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.08.077.
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Abstract
We report the use of an absorbable pulmonary artery band to limit postoperative cyanosis due to severe pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae in a 5-year-old girl with post-Fontan palliation takedown to a two-ventricle repair. At 1-year postoperatively, her fistulae had nearly resolved with no distortion of her pulmonary artery anatomy. This case demonstrates a novel approach to limiting cyanosis while pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae resolved after redirection of hepatic blood flow to the affected lung.
Medical subject headings
- Arteriovenous Fistula
- Pulmonary Artery
- Pulmonary Veins