PULMONARY HYPOPLASIA SECONDARY TO PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS: SURGICAL FIX FOR RECURRENT PNEUMONIA?

Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm arising secondary to cavitary pneumonia

Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms have classically been associated with the cavitary lesions of reactivation tuberculosis and termed Rasmussen's aneurysm. There have been relatively few case reports of pulmonary artery pseudoaneuryms arising secondary to cavitary pneumonia. We present a case of pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm occurring secondary to cavitating aspiration pneumonia that was treate...

Surgical Techniques for Repair of Peripheral Pulmonary Artery Stenosis.

Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis is a rare form of congenital heart disease frequently associated with Williams and Alagille syndromes. Patients with this disease typically have systemic level right ventricular pressures secondary to obstruction at the lobar, segmental, and subsegmental branches. The current management of patients with peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis remains somewhat c...

Lung hypoplasia in congenital pulmonary valve stenosis.

The pulmonary function of ten adult patients with congenital pulmonary valvular stenosis was investigated. The patients clearly showed smaller lungs than healthy control subjects of equivalent age and height; lung elastic recoil pressure was normal at any given percentage of measured total lung capacity, indicating that postnatal parenchymal damage is not the cause of the small lungs. The lung ...

Pulmonary artery stenosis.

SINCE the description by Mbller' in 1953 of stenosis of peripheral pulmonary arteries, this congenital lesion has been recognized with increasing frequency. The lesion is of interest both from a clinical and physiologic standpoint. From the latter standpoint, there is sufficient documentation to warrant the inclusion of this congenital anomaly as one of the causes of right ventricular hypertens...

Acquired pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary artery compression.