Congenital descending aorta-pulmonary vein fistula (cDAPVF) is a very rare congenital
fistula between the descending aorta and the pulmonary vein. In this article, we present
a young male patient who was admitted to our department with hemoptysis. A contrast-enhanced
computed tomography (CT) scan confirmed the diagnosis, and the patient underwent surgical
ligation of the abnormal artery. To our knowledge, less than 10 cases have been previously
reported, and this is the second case in the literature of cDAPVF causing hemoptysis
in an adult.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 14, 2017
Accepted:
February 20,
2017
Received in revised form:
January 25,
2017
Received:
December 14,
2016
Footnotes
☆The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
☆☆This work was supported by the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (2016147426).
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