Fistula formation between the arterial blood supply of pulmonary sequestration and the oesophagus accompanied by an intermittent haematemesis.

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of AFMU, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China.

Published: March 2019

This study aimed to report the case of a patient diagnosed with pulmonary sequestration accompanied by an intermittent haematemesis as the initial and life-threatening symptom. Emergent surgical intervention finally confirmed a rare direct fistula formation between the arterial blood supply of pulmonary sequestration and the oesophagus, which led to intermittent upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported with this kind of fistula formation.

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