title: Successful stenting of a life threatening pulmonary arterial stenosis.
abstract: A 35 year old woman with multiple pulmonary arterial stenoses and occlusions was admitted with increasingly severe breathlessness. Balloon angioplasty of a life threatening stenosis in a remaining pulmonary artery branch was attempted on two occasions but without success. When a self-expanding stainless steel stent was inserted at the site of stenosis after a further angioplasty acute localised pulmonary oedema developed as blood flow distal to the lesion increased considerably. This was followed by a slow and dramatic improvement in the patient's condition. She no longer required an urgent transplant and resumed an active life.
authors.affiliation: Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mulcahy
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sigwart
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Somerville
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D015607:Stents