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Anales de Medicina Interna
Print version ISSN 0212-7199
Abstract
TOMAS LABAT, M. E. de et al. Idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysm: Report a case and review of the literature. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.7, pp.329-331. ISSN 0212-7199.
Woman of 63 years old with essential arterial hypertensión, essential trembling and chronic venous insufficiency of inferior members; she came to the Internal Medicine outpatients department because of her chronic venous insufficiency, objectifying in the physical examination a systolic heart murmur II/VI in the left sternal border and many signs of chronic venous insufficiency in the inferior members. In the chest radiograph was found as an accidental finding, a properly delimited vascular image in the left upper mediastino, for this reason there were later realized diverse complementary examinations gradually more aggressive, that included a pulmonary angiography which revealed the presence of an aneurysmatic dilatation in the common and left pulmonary arteries. With these findings, the patient was undergoing a surgical operation, in which was realized a partial resection and folder to the common and left pulmonary arteries to reduce diameter to 2-3 centimetres, with a post-operative period without complications and staying without symptoms after the surgery.
Keywords : Pulmonary artery aneurysm; Idiopathic aneurysm; Pulmonary artery pathologic dilatation.