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Luke Son1, Mitchell Couldwell2, Keshav Anand3
1Department of Interventional Radiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Radiology Case Reports
|November 14, 2024
Abstract:
Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms are rare. We present a case of a 78-year old female who developed a pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms causing hemoptysis after undergoing endovascular placement of a left atrial appendage occlusion device. The pulmonary arery pseudoaneurysm was treated with coil embolization.
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