Successful treatment of an adult patient with an aortopulmonary window and severe unilateral pulmonary hypertension.

  • Olaf Franzen
  • Throng-Phi Le
  • Robert Cesnjevar
  • Philipp Begemann
  • Stephan Baldus

Abstract

A 40-year-old woman with an aortopulmonary window combined with a severe stenosis of the right pulmonary artery was successfully treated by surgical closure of the defect and pulmonary artery patch plasty of the pulmonary stenosis. Even though the vasculature of the left lung was severely damaged preoperatively, the resulting pressure in the lung after surgical correction was only mildly elevated.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number6
ISSN1747-079X
Publication statusPublished - 2009
pubmed 19925544