Chronic outpatient sildenafil therapy for pulmonary hypertension in a child after cardiac surgery

Pediatr Cardiol. 2005 Nov-Dec;26(6):859-61. doi: 10.1007/s00246-005-0945-0.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / surgery
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / drug therapy*
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / etiology
  • Infant
  • Long-Term Care
  • Male
  • Patient Discharge
  • Piperazines / therapeutic use*
  • Postoperative Complications / drug therapy*
  • Purines
  • Sildenafil Citrate
  • Sulfones
  • Transposition of Great Vessels / surgery
  • Vasodilator Agents / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Piperazines
  • Purines
  • Sulfones
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Sildenafil Citrate