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[Ruptured bronchial artery aneurysm; report of a case]
N Takahashi1, T Satoh, M Abiko
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefecture Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
|August 23, 2003
Abstract:
A 74-year-old man who went into shock following an acute hemomediastinum and left hemothorax was operated on. Postoperative angiographies revealed a saccular aneurysm of the left bronchial artery of 2.0 cm in diameter. Sixty days after the initial operation, the aneurysm was resected under F-F bypass. A saccular aneurysm was found at the root of the left bronchial artery, which had a very short segment between the aneurysm and the aorta. Pathological study of aneurysm revealed thinning of the wall and lack of tunica media.