CORONARY-ARTERY FISTULA COEXISTING WITH A VENTRICULAR SEPTAL-DEFECT DUE TO A PENETRATING GUNSHOT WOUND

Authors
KWAN T SALCICCIOLI L ELSAKR A BURACK J FEIT A
Citation
T. Kwan et al., CORONARY-ARTERY FISTULA COEXISTING WITH A VENTRICULAR SEPTAL-DEFECT DUE TO A PENETRATING GUNSHOT WOUND, Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis, 34(3), 1995, pp. 235-239
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis → ACNP
ISSN journal
00986569
Volume
34
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
235 - 239
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-6569(1995)34:3<235:CFCWAV>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We describe a patient who survived a penetrating gunshot wound to the chest. Cardiac evaluation including echocardiography and cardiac cathe rization revealed a coronary artery fistula and a ventricular septal d efect. This combination has been rarely reported in patients with pene trating cardiac injury. Follow-up echocardiography performed 15 mo lat er showed persistent left-to-right shunt. This is the first case in th e literature demonstrating the natural history of combined coronary ar tery fistula and ventricular septal defect without surgical correction . (C) 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.