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A left pulmonary artery aneurysm secondary to pulmonary hypertension
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kadir Has University, Medical Faculty, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul 80320, Turkey. bingur@comnet.com.tr
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|September 20, 2001
Abstract:
We report a case of pulmonary trunk aneurysm extending into the left pulmonary artery, due to pulmonary hypertension secondary to mitral valve disease. The mitral valve was replaced with a bileaflet mechanical prosthesis. A Dacron graft interposed between main trunk and left pulmonary artery branch, and right pulmonary branch attached to the graft in an end-to-side fashion. Early postoperative angiogram revealed a very successful treatment.