Complications of modified Blalock-Taussig shunts mimicking pulmonary disease
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, The
Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK
Correspondence to: Dr Bush.
Accepted 8 May 1998
The modified Blalock-Taussig shunt is commonly performed as
early palliation in cyanotic congenital heart disease. To highlight unusual diagnostic problems in such patients, two cases are reported in
whom shunt complications were initially diagnosed as lobar pneumonia
and tuberculosis, respectively. The children, an 8 month old boy and a
3 year old boy, had false aneurysm secondary to infection of the graft
and dilatation of the left pulmonary artery caused by blood flow
through the shunt, respectively.
© 1998 by Archives of Disease in Childhood
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