• Pediatric cardiology · Oct 2011

    Case Reports

    Autologous right pulmonary artery tissue for repair of left pulmonary artery originating from left patent ductus arteriosus in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve.

    • Koray Ak, Sinan Arsan, Figen Akalın, Ozgur Gursu, and Selim Isbir.
    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul 34899, Turkey. korayakmd@gmail.com
    • Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Oct 1;32(7):986-9.

    AbstractLeft pulmonary artery (PA) originating from patent ductus arteriosus is an exceptionally rare variant of tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve. We described an alternative technique for the repair of discontinuous left PA with the use of the redundant pulmonary artery tissue as material for the conduit in a 3-year-old boy.

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