Kubicki Rouven, Stiller Brigitte, Grohmann Jochen
Department of Congenital Heart Defects and Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Center, University of Freiburg, Mathildenstraße 1, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Springerplus. 2016 Sep 15;5(1):1575. doi: 10.1186/s40064-016-3273-3. eCollection 2016.
Pseudoaneurysm formation is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication after surgical repair of congenital heart disease. We present a boy with truncus arteriosus communis 14 years after homograft placement in pulmonary position. On follow-up, he presented progressive chronic homograft degeneration. Moreover, a large pseudoaneurysm in the right ventricular outflow tract was surprisingly depicted. We opted for a two-stage interventional approach.