Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course

We report the rare subchronic clinical course of a giant, dissecting pulmonary artery aneurysm in an oligosymptomatic middle-aged woman who had idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosis was simple with the use of echocardiography and multislice computed tomography. Conversely, deciding on the tre...

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Main Authors: Smalcelj, Anton, Brida, Vojtjeh, Samarzija, Miroslav, Matana, Ante, Margetic, Eduard, Drinkovic, Niksa
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Publicado em: Published in the Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories, Texas Heart Institute, 2005
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spelling pubmed-13518392006-02-03 Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course Smalcelj, Anton Brida, Vojtjeh Samarzija, Miroslav Matana, Ante Margetic, Eduard Drinkovic, Niksa Tex Heart Inst J Case Report We report the rare subchronic clinical course of a giant, dissecting pulmonary artery aneurysm in an oligosymptomatic middle-aged woman who had idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosis was simple with the use of echocardiography and multislice computed tomography. Conversely, deciding on the treatment was difficult, because prominent surgeons declined to perform surgical repair of the aneurysm and recommended heart–lung transplantation. Therefore, we were forced to treat our patient medically. She survived for 1 year, including 8 months of treatment with sildenafil, and then died suddenly while awaiting transplantation. Our patient, who had a dissecting, high-pressure pulmonary artery aneurysm, had an unexpectedly stable and uneventful clinical course for 1 year, which, under more favorable circumstances, might have provided enough time for heart–lung transplantation to be performed. Published in the Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories, Texas Heart Institute, 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC1351839/ /pubmed/16429912 Text en © 2005 by the Texas Heart® Institute, Houston
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language Inglês
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Smalcelj, Anton
Brida, Vojtjeh
Samarzija, Miroslav
Matana, Ante
Margetic, Eduard
Drinkovic, Niksa
Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course
description We report the rare subchronic clinical course of a giant, dissecting pulmonary artery aneurysm in an oligosymptomatic middle-aged woman who had idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosis was simple with the use of echocardiography and multislice computed tomography. Conversely, deciding on the treatment was difficult, because prominent surgeons declined to perform surgical repair of the aneurysm and recommended heart–lung transplantation. Therefore, we were forced to treat our patient medically. She survived for 1 year, including 8 months of treatment with sildenafil, and then died suddenly while awaiting transplantation. Our patient, who had a dissecting, high-pressure pulmonary artery aneurysm, had an unexpectedly stable and uneventful clinical course for 1 year, which, under more favorable circumstances, might have provided enough time for heart–lung transplantation to be performed.
author Smalcelj, Anton
Brida, Vojtjeh
Samarzija, Miroslav
Matana, Ante
Margetic, Eduard
Drinkovic, Niksa
author_facet Smalcelj, Anton
Brida, Vojtjeh
Samarzija, Miroslav
Matana, Ante
Margetic, Eduard
Drinkovic, Niksa
author_sort Smalcelj, Anton
title Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course
title_short Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course
title_full Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course
title_fullStr Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course
title_full_unstemmed Giant, Dissecting, High-Pressure Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report of a 1-Year Natural Course
title_sort giant, dissecting, high-pressure pulmonary artery aneurysm: case report of a 1-year natural course
publisher Published in the Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratories, Texas Heart Institute,
publishDate 2005
url https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1351839/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16429912
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