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Surgical closure of big pulmonary artery-left atrial fistula
Rafik Margaryan1, Luigi Arcieri, Massimiliano Cantinotti
1Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of the Heart G. Pasquinucci, Massa, Italy. raffdoc@gmail.com
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|October 14, 2009
Abstract:
Big pulmonary artery-left atrial fistula malformation (PALAF) was diagnosed in a 5-year-old boy. Although transcatheter therapy would be preferred as a treatment of PALAF, the lesion, which was 20 mm in diameter and almost totally shunting the right main pulmonary artery, it was decided to treat by surgical approach.
