Idiopathic Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm With Pulmonary Regurgitation

Idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysms are rare and need a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment. Surgery is the treatment of choice, especially when the aneurysms are large and when they are associated with pulmonary regurgitation. This report highlights a case in which successful su...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Annals of thoracic surgery 2010-12, Vol.90 (6), p.2049-2051
Hauptverfasser:	Muthialu, Nagarajan, FRCS, Ed, Raju, Vijayakumar, MCh, Muthubaskaran, Venkatadevanathan, DNB, Chandrasekar, Padmanabhan, DNB, Muralidharan, Srinivasan, MCh, Kuppanna, Periyasamy J., DM
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Aneurysm - complications Aneurysm - diagnosis Aneurysm - surgery Biological and medical sciences Blood and lymphatic vessels Cardiology. Vascular system Cardiothoracic Surgery Diagnosis, Differential Diseases of the peripheral vessels. Diseases of the vena cava. Miscellaneous Echocardiography Endocardial and cardiac valvular diseases Female Heart Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation - methods Humans Medical sciences Pneumology Pulmonary Artery Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency - complications Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency - diagnosis Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency - surgery Surgery Tomography, X-Ray Computed Vascular Surgical Procedures - methods
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Zusammenfassung:	Idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysms are rare and need a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment. Surgery is the treatment of choice, especially when the aneurysms are large and when they are associated with pulmonary regurgitation. This report highlights a case in which successful surgical repair preserved the native pulmonary valve after pulmonary artery reconstruction.
ISSN:	0003-4975 1552-6259
DOI:	10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.05.071