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Huge Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm

Author(s) -

Aiman M Hammad,

Sultan Alqahtani,

Mohammed Alzahrani

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

canadian respiratory journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1916-7245

pISSN - 1198-2241

DOI - 10.1155/2009/876784

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary artery , embolization , rare disease , pulmonary hypertension , behcet disease , surgery , aneurysm , disease , radiology

Pulmonary artery aneurysms (PAAs) are uncommon entities. PAAs are caused mostly by trauma (often iatrogenic), infections and Behcet's disease (BD). Less common causes are pulmonary hypertension, congenital heart disease and neoplasm. BD is a multisystem disorder presenting with recurrent oral and genital ulcerations, as well as ocular involvement, and PAA is one of its rare complications. A case of huge PAA, in which the usual criteria for the clinical diagnosis of BD were present, is described. Transcatheter embolization resulted in clinical improvement.

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