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Surgical treatment of coronary-to-pulmonary fistula: how and when?

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Coronary arteriovenous fistulas (CAVF) are rare malformations. Opinions vary on which operation should be offered to these patients, particularly those asymptomatic. We report four patients operated on for CAVF referred to our institution over the course of a year. Three patients had associated cardiac lesions. In all of them CAVF was identified and closed with running sutures. There was no operative mortality or operative morbidity. All patients were asymptomatic at follow-up. In patients undergoing surgical treatment of cardiac disease, associated CAVF should always be treated. Although in patients with giant CAVF it is safer to patch the outflow of CAVF from the outflow chamber, in the majority of cases CAVF should be identified intraoperatively and closed with multiple running stitches.

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    Francesco Onorati, Pasquale Mastroroberto, Massimo Bilotta, Lucia Cristodoro, Antonio Esposito, Francesco Pezzo & Attilio Renzulli

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Onorati, F., Mastroroberto, P., Bilotta, M. et al. Surgical treatment of coronary-to-pulmonary fistula: how and when?. Heart Vessels 21, 321–324 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-005-0892-y

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