Spontaneous expectoration of a Blalock-Taussig shunt a decade after operation
oleh: Shyam S Kothari, Madhan Kumar Murugan, Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-01-01 |
Deskripsi
An eleven-year-old boy expectorated a foreign body in cough that was identified as the prosthetic graft used for a Blalock-Taussig shunt. The shunt procedure was done 10 years earlier, and a definitive repair for tetralogy of Fallot was done a year later. He had no other symptoms, and a computed tomography (CT) angiogram did not reveal any other significant anomaly. The reason for this extremely rare event is unclear.