Coronary artery-pulmonary artery fistula in a heart-transplanted patient

Eur J Echocardiogr. 2010 Jan;11(1):80-1. doi: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep113. Epub 2009 Sep 12.

Abstract

A 64-year-old-man underwent routine elective right-left heart catheterization, 1 year after cardiac transplantation for terminal ischaemic cardiomyopathy. Surprisingly, selective coronary angiography disclosed coronary-pulmonary artery fistula with three feeding vessels originating from the proximal right coronary artery, the proximal portion of the left anterior descending artery, the circumflexus artery, and the left main coronary artery, draining into the pulmonary trunk. For this particular patient, without any significant cardiac complaints or symptoms, with normal cardiac dimensions and haemodynamic findings, a conservative approach was decided on.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Arterio-Arterial Fistula / pathology*
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Vessels / pathology*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery / pathology*