A rare complication of balloon pulmonary angioplasty: Aortopulmonary window and its treatment

Özet

Surgical repair, balloon dilatation, and stenting are good treatment options for stenosis in the branches of the pulmonary artery(1, 2). Balloon angioplasty may cause complications such as aneurysm formation, vessel dissection or rupture, iatrogenic aortopulmonary window (APW) formation, and temporary unilaterallung edema (2-5). Iatrogenic APW has been rarely reported afterpulmonary angioplasty (2, 3). Acute formation of APW causesincreased volume load on the left heart and leads to congestiveheart failure. Here we report a rare case of iatrogenic APW withcongestive heart failure that did not respond to medical treatment