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Mediastinal mass after a Blalock–Taussig shunt: utility of CT angiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2020

Valeria Peña-Trujillo
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Pediatric Cardiology Institute, Bogotá, Colombia School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá110131, Colombia.
Sebastian Gallo-Bernal*
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Pediatric Cardiology Institute, Bogotá, Colombia School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá110131, Colombia.
Julian F Forero Melo
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Pediatric Cardiology Institute, Bogotá, Colombia School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá110131, Colombia.
*
Author for correspondence: S. Gallo-Bernal, MD, Division of Pediatric Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Transplantation, Fundación Cardioinfantil, Calle 163 A No. 13B-60, Bogotá110131, Colombia. Tel: +57-3112625543; Fax: +(57) 1-6672708. E-mail: juans.bernal@urosario.edu.co

Abstract

Pseudoaneurysms are rare complications of Blalock–Taussig fistulas. We present the case of an abscessed right pulmonary aneurysm after a Blalock–Taussig fistula in the context of a Salmonella bacteremia.

Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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