[Pulmonary artery aneurysm. Report of 2 cases]

The clinical suspicion of pulmonary artery aneurysm was made in two patients from the clinical signs and radiographic features. The echocardiographic studies showed features concerned with this pathology, and hemodynamic studies confirmed the diagnosis by pulmonary angiography. Both patients presented pulmonary valve insufficiency due to the huge pulmonary artery and dilatation of the valvular annulus. Other congenital malformations of the heart and pulmonary hypertension were not present in these patients. Surgical treatment was indicated in both patients. Surgery in patient no. 2 consisted of resection of the main pulmonary artery aneurysm and replacement with a valved conduit bovine pericardium and anastomosed with a patch of bovine pericardium connecting the left and right pulmonary arteries. The postoperative period was uneventful.