Closure of patent ductus artreriosus in an adult patient under cardiopulmonary bypass with total circulatory arrest

Abstract

We report a 19 years old woman who, in addition to a large, short, window-like Patent Ductus arteriosus (PDA), had pulmonary artery hypertension and multivalvular heart disease. After a pulmonary artery injury during surgery after primary thoracotomy, her PDA was closed transpulmonary with Gore-Tex patch, via median sternotomy and Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB)/Hypothermic Total Circulatory Arrest (HTCA) and discharged from hospital without any problem.