Surgical correction of congenital left coronary-pulmonary artery fistula and rheumatic mitral valve disease: Case Report

G. Lanzillo Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

F. Alessandrini Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

S. Bartoccioni Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

G. Bombardieri Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

M. A. Intonti Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

C. Pragliola Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

M. Morelli Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

E. Baruffi Division of Cardiac Surgery, Institute of Clinical Surgery, Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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Abstract

A 56-year-old woman with stenosis and incompetence of the mitral valve and clinical signs of congestive heart failure was found to have a communication between the left anterior descending coronary artery and the pulmonary trunk. A mitral valve prosthesis was inserted and the fistula was closed from within the pulmonary artery.

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