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To the Editor: Adults with congenital heart disease who have pulmonary hypertension may have dissection of the pulmonary artery. Increasingly recognized as a lethal complication, pulmonary-artery dissection has usually been recorded at autopsy.¹ Survivors often receive conservative care, because Eisenmenger's syndrome is deemed inoperable. Heart–lung transplantation has been performed in patients in the chronic phase of the disease.² However, we suggest that the early, high mortality rate associated with Eisenmenger's syndrome warrants urgent conventional repair of the pulmonary artery.

A 26-year-old man with an unrepaired double-outlet right ventricle presented at our center with chest pain and breathlessness. A ventricular septal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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• Shuhaiber, J. H., Westaby, S. (2007). Eisenmenger's Syndrome and Pulmonary-Artery Dissection. NEJM 357: 718-719 [Full Text]