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Left Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Post-stenotic Pulmonary Aneurysm Related to Pulmonary Valve Stenosis

Bhattad, Pradnya Brijmohan
Yukselen, Zeynep
Bhasin, Mohit
Roumia, Mazen
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Aneurysms of the pulmonary artery are uncommon vascular pathologies that are associated with congenital structural cardiac anomalies, pulmonary hypertension, vasculitis, neoplasm, iatrogenic, and infection. PAAs are commonly asymptomatic and accidentally diagnosed, however, if symptomatic, clinical features are generally non-specific and depend on the etiology of PAA. CT pulmonary angiography remains the gold standard imaging modality and other diagnostic imaging tests include transthoracic echocardiography and right heart catheterization. Definitive treatment of PAA is surgery, however, conservative management with close monitoring should be practiced in patients with poor surgical candidates or surgery is unlikely to improve survival. Here, we report a case of pulmonary artery aneurysm secondary to congenital pulmonary valve stenosis as well as a brief review of the literature regarding pulmonary artery aneurysms.

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Bhattad PB, Yukselen Z, Bhasin M, Roumia M. Left Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: A Post-stenotic Pulmonary Aneurysm Related to Pulmonary Valve Stenosis. Cureus. 2023 Feb 10;15(2):e34836. doi: 10.7759/cureus.34836. PMID: 36919075; PMCID: PMC10008472.

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10.7759/cureus.34836
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© Copyright 2023 Bhattad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Attribution 4.0 International