[Correction of left coronary artery to pulmonary artery fistula on the occasion of pulmonary embolectomy (author's transl)].

In a 42 year old woman a left coronary artery to pulmonary artery fistula was proved by catheterization and coronary angiography. During this investigations a right femoral hernia became symptomatic, and surgical correction was carried out. Three days postoperatively a massive pulmonary embolism occurred causing shock and fibrillation of the heart.