Open AccessA rare case of underlying pulmonary sequestration in a patient with recently diagnosed medium and large vessel vasculitis
Author(s) -
Shahid Malik,
Sakshi Khurana,
Vishnu Vasudevan,
Nikhil Gupta
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.129871
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary sequestration , vasculitis , lung , abnormality , pathology , systemic vasculitis , cardiology , disease , psychiatry
Vasculitis of medium- and large-sized arteries is an inflammatory and stenotic disease characterized by a strong predilection for the aortic arch and its branches. It presents with symptoms and signs as per the vessels and organs involved. Pulmonary sequestration is a rare abnormality characterized by a mass of nonfunctioning lung tissue that receives its vascular supply from a systemic artery and is separated from the normal tracheobronchial tree. The following is a rare case report showing the presence of pulmonary sequestration in a patient with recently diagnosed hypertension and intestinal angina due to medium and large vessel vasculitis.