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Coronary artery fistulas after paediatric heart transplantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2021

Elisabet Camprubi-Tubella*
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Unit. Hospital Vall Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain
Ferrán Gran-Ipiña
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Pediatric Heart Transplant Unit. Hospital Vall Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain
Pedro Betrián-Blasco
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Unit. Hospital Vall Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain
*
Author for correspondence: Elisabet Camprubi Tubella, Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario Vall Hebrón, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebrón, 119-129, 08035Barcelona, Spain. Tel: +34 934 89 30 00; Fax: +34932746001. E-mail: ecamprubi.ebre.ics@gencat.cat

Abstract

Coronary artery fistulas have been described in patients after heart transplantation more often than in the normal population. We reviewed our centre’s database between 2008 and 2020. Thirty patients had coronary angiography and 13 showed non-cameral coronary artery fistulas in their first coronary angiography. Distribution, degree and evolution of the fistulas and characteristics of transplant procedure, patient and immunosuppressive treatments were analysed.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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