Increased exercise capability after repair of a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula.

A seven-year-old boy with a direct communication between the right pulmonary artery and the left atrium is reported. We document dramatic increases, to normal values, in exercise capability and cardiorespiratory adaptations to exercise after repair of the lesion.

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