[Percutaneous occlusion by a detachable balloon of a fistula between the left coronary and the pulmonary artery]. / Occlusion par voie percutanée au moyen d'un balloon détachable d'une fistule entre l'artère coronaire gauche et l'artère pulmonaire.

A large fistula between the left circumflex coronary artery and the distal branches of the right pulmonary artery resulting in myocardial ischemia in a 52 year old woman with no angiographic atheromatous coronary lesions, was occluded by a detachable balloon introduced percutaneously and positioned at the origin of the fistula. A control angiogram performed one month later showed the balloon in position and the disappearance of the fistula. The Thallium myocardial scintigraphic abnormalities regressed after occlusion of the fistula. This is the second case (the first one in France) of radical non-surgical treatment of a congenital coronary fistula.