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Coil embolization of a coronary fistula in a post-transplant patient
S S Furniss1, L Mitchell, P Kitipawong
1Department of Academic Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
European Heart Journal
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 23-year-old man 6 months after post-orthotopic heart transplant was troubled by fatigue and breathlessness and noted to have a continuous murmur. Coronary angiography revealed five fistulae from the left anterior descending artery draining into the right ventricle. The left-to-right shunt was obliterated by coil embolization and this was associated with improvement in the patient's symptoms and a reduction in the murmur.