Congenital Coronary Arteriovenous Fistula

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Abstract
REPORTS of the unusual anomaly of coronary arteriovenous fistula are appearing with increasing frequency. When Steinberg, Baldwin and Dotter1 reviewed the subject in 1958, they found 22 examples in the literature and added 1 case that they had observed over a seven-year period. By 1959 Currarino and his co-workers2 had collected 52 cases of this malformation, 5 in animals. Nine patients had associated cardiovascular anomalies. In a masterly treatment of the subject in 1960, Gasul and his associates3 reported on 5 patients in whom the anomaly was diagnosed during life; in 4 it was surgically corrected. Their review of other . . .