Successful Treatment of an Adult Patient with an Aortopulmonary Window and Severe Unilateral Pulmonary Hypertension
First published: 13 November 2009
Olaf Franzen, MD, Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. Tel: (+49) 40 741053972; Fax: (+49) 40 741052967; E-mail: [email protected]
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.
