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A 2-year-old girl with isolated unilateral absence of right pulmonary artery is described. Catheterization at 5 months demonstrated hypoplastic right pulmonary artery by pulmonary venous wedge angiography, and the patient underwent right Blalock-Taussig shunt and angioplasty of right pulmonary artery with autologous pericardial roll as an initial step. At 2 years, she underwent anastomosis of right pulmonary artery to main pulmonary artery with an autologous pericardial tube. Postoperative computed tomography showed a patent reconstructed right pulmonary artery.
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Hiramatsu, T., Komori, S., Okamura, Y. et al. Surgical correction of isolated unilateral absence of right pulmonary artery. Heart Vessels 25, 353–355 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-009-1207-5
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