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Pulmonary artery aneurysm: review and case report
A Lopez-Candales1, R E Kleiger, J Aleman-Gomez
1Division of Cardiology, Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Washington University Medical Center, Missouri 63110, USA.
Clinical Cardiology
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
Aneurysms involving the main pulmonary artery and its branches are rare. Clinical experience is limited and current knowledge is mainly derived from autopsy findings. This case report describes a patient with a pulmonary artery aneurysm associated with a previous, partially corrected stenotic pulmonary valve. The patient presented with symptoms suggestive of aneurysm dissection three decades after commissurotomy. The diagnostic approach and therapeutic intervention are emphasized with a review of the literature.