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Severe unilateral pulmonary vascular changes in child with polysplenia
Katsuhide Maeda1, Shigeo Yamaki, Arata Murakami
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan. maedak-tky@umin.ac.jp
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
A 12-year-old boy with polysplenia and single ventricle experienced recurrent episodes of pneumonia, hemoptysis, and pulmonary hypertension. Unilateral pulmonary vein obstruction was diagnosed, and a left pneumonectomy was performed. Microscopy of the resected specimen revealed pulmonary veno-occlusive disease in the small pulmonary venules, and old arteritis in the small pulmonary arteries.