Volume 26, Number 6, 859-861, DOI: 10.1007/s00246-005-0945-0

Chronic Outpatient Sildenafil Therapy for Pulmonary Hypertension in a Child After Cardiac Surgery

C.A. Knoderer, E.S. Ebenroth and J.W. Brown

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Abstract

We report the case of a 14-month-old male with d-transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary hypertension successfully treated with long-term sildenafil following cardiac surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of long-term sildenafil treatment in a child after corrective cardiac surgery.

Keywords  Sildenafil - Pulmonary hypertension - Cardiac surgery

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