One-stage ventriculoarterial connection for correction of a coronary artery-to-main pulmonary artery fistula, and transfer of 2 major aortopulmonary collateral arteries from the descending aorta to the right pulmonary artery were successfully accomplished in a 4-month-old boy with pulmonary atresia and a ventricular septal defect.
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