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describe a 22-year-old woman with a history of unrepaired pulmonary atresia
with ventricular septal defect. This woman was interesting in that her mai
n pulmonary artery and right pulmonary artery arose from the left main coro
nary artery. She developed significant pulmonary hypertension in addition t
o isolation of the left pulmonary artery following ductal closure, subseque
nt to which the majority of her pulmonary blood flow was coronary dependent
.