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Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and systemic-pulmonary collateral arteries
Sonia B Albanese1, Adriano Carotti, Alessandra Toscano
1Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy. albanese@opbg.net
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and major systemic-pulmonary collateral arteries is a very rare congenital heart lesion with dismal natural history. Herein we report on a case of pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum with hypoplastic right ventricle, very small confluent pulmonary arteries, absent arterial duct, and pulmonary blood flow exclusively provided by bronchial-type systemic-pulmonary collateral arteries that was successfully treated at our institution.