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PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 1267-1268Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0377-6
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Aortopulmonary fistula; Balloon dilation; Congenital heart disease
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We describe the natural history of an adolescent patient who developed an aortopulmonary fistula (APF) after transcatheter stent placement for left pulmonary artery stenosis after neonatal repair of d-transposition of the great arteries. Due to its rarity, the APF was not initially diagnosed and treated until 4 months later. The APF was occluded with a covered stent. Because this is not an isolated report in the literature, we believe it should be considered as a potential complication in all patients after balloon dilation of stenotic pulmonary artery branches after arterial switch surgery.
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