“…These complications include preferential distribution of shunt flow to the right lung, thrombosis, embolism, kinking, narrowing or obstruction of the right pulmonary artery at the anastomotic site, increasing stenosis or atresia of the right ventricular outflow tract, hypoplasia of the left pulmonary artery and obstruction of the shunt itself 10,11 . Rupture of pulmonary aneurysms and dissecting haematomas of the pulmonary artery in association with long‐standing Waterston shunts have been described as well 12,13 …”