Brachiocephalic artery to left innominate vein fistula following median sternotomy | Zendy

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Brachiocephalic artery to left innominate vein fistula following median sternotomy

Author(s) -

R Duara,

Puthuvassery Raman Suneel,

Thomas Koshy,

Kurur Sankaran Neelakandhan

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.05.002

Subject(s) - medicine , median sternotomy , fistula , ostium , cephalic vein , arteriovenous fistula , surgery , vein , superior vena cava , brachiocephalic vein , septum secundum , artery

Nineteen-year-old girl operated for ostium secundum ASD sustained injury to the left innominate vein during sternotomy, and was repaired immediately. Pulse Doppler (Fig. 1) revealed continuous flow across the fistula and DSA (Fig. 2) showed flow to the left innominate vein into the superior vena cava. Fistula successfully repaired on 10th postoperative day. European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 28 (2005) 328–329 www.elsevier.com/locate/ejcts

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