Management of pulmonary arterial supply dependent on a coronary arterial fistula in a patient with tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia

Pankaj Garg; Sachin Talwar; Shyam Sundar Kothari; Palleti Rajashekar; Gurpreet Singh Gulati; Robert H Anderson; Balram Airan

doi:10.1177/2150135112450039

Management of pulmonary arterial supply dependent on a coronary arterial fistula in a patient with tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia

World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2012 Oct 1;3(4):499-503. doi: 10.1177/2150135112450039.

Authors

Pankaj Garg¹, Sachin Talwar, Shyam Sundar Kothari, Palleti Rajashekar, Gurpreet Singh Gulati, Robert H Anderson, Balram Airan

Affiliation

¹ Cardiothoracic Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 23804913
DOI: 10.1177/2150135112450039

Abstract

In this report, we describe the surgical management of a patient with tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia, in whom a fistula from the anterior interventricular coronary artery was the predominant source of arterial supply to both the lungs.

Keywords: artery/arteries; congenital heart disease (CHD); congenital heart surgery; coronary artery anomaly; pulmonary atresia; tetralogy of Fallot.