Peripheral Pulmonary Artery Aneurysms in Patients with Pulmonary Artery Hypertension
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A case of isolated peripheral pulmonary artery branch stenosis associated with multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms.
Selective right pulmonary arteriography and 3-dimensional computed tomography revealed multiple severe stenoses of the peripheral pulmonary artery associated with poststenotic aneurysms in a 65-year-old woman. She was referred to the hospital for evaluation of dry cough, gradually increasing dyspnea and multiple nodular shadows on a chest radiograph. Echocardiography and cardiac catheterization...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6462