Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
Improvement of protein-losing enteropathy by coil embolization of the left azygos vein
Abstract
We report a 17-year-old boy with double-outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, and persistent left superior vena cava who developed a protein-losing enteropathy, which was cured by coil embolization of the left azygos vein, thereby interrupting the vein-to-vein shunt. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 2003;59:399–401. © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
