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Traumatic coronary-pulmonary artery fistula, 23 years after a stab wound
B Maitre1, S Jouveshomme, R Isnard
1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France. bernard.maitre@hmn.ap-hop-paris.fr
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 18, 2000
Abstract:
We describe a 50-year-old man with onset of severe hemoptysis and anemia. Twenty-three years earlier, he had undergone a surgical procedure for a left thoracic wound as a result of a knife injury. Current diagnosis of aneurysm of the left ventricle and coronary-pulmonary artery fistula was made after coronary arteriography. The patient underwent resection of the aneurysm and repair of the fistula.