Airway Improvement with Medium-Term Compression Duration after Right Pulmonary Artery Anterior Translocation
10.5090/kjtcs.2018.51.1.57
- Author:
Woo Sung JANG
1
;
Jae Bum KIM
;
Jae Hyun KIM
;
Hee Jeong CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Korea. whiteuri@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Congenital heart disease;
Left main bronchus compression;
Pulmonary artery anterior translocation;
Atrial heart septal defects
- MeSH:
Aorta, Thoracic;
Bronchi;
Female;
Heart Defects, Congenital;
Heart Diseases;
Humans;
Infant;
Pneumonia;
Pulmonary Artery;
Sternotomy
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2018;51(1):57-60
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Left main bronchus compression occasionally occurs in patients with cardiac disease. A 19-month-old female patient weighing 6.7 kg was admitted for recurrent pneumonia and desaturation. She had an a trial septal defect (AS D) with a right aortic arch. Her left main bronchus had been compressed between the enlarged right pulmonary artery (RPA) and the descending thoracic aorta for 14 months. We conducted ASD closure and RPA anterior translocation via sternotomy. The left main bronchus compression was relieved despite the medium-term duration of compression.
