Coil embolization therapy in congenital coronary arterial fistulas.

Pediatr Cardiol

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center, Technical University, Munich, Lazarettstrasse 36, D-80686 Munich, Germany.

Published: August 2003

Three pediatric patients (8.5 years, 3 years, and 1 month) presented with congenital coronary arterial fistulas. In all cases the fistulas entered into the right side of the heart (main pulmonary artery, n = 1; right ventricle, n = 2). In the first patient, the fistula and an open ductus arteriosus were closed during the same intervention. The second patient presented with a single left coronary ostium and residual shunt from the coronary artery system to the right ventricle after surgery. The third child had pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and a fistula from the left coronary artery to the right ventricle. The fistulas in all patients were managed with coil occlusion. Fistula occlusion was documented with angiocardiography.

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