title: Pulmonary artery aneurysm: is surgery always indicated?
abstract: The authors present a seventy-eight year old woman with an aneurysm of the main pulmonary artery. Although a surgical approach is generally considered life-saving by preventing rupture of the aneurysm, literature is unclear about possible rupture in the specific situation of a pulmonary artery aneurysm without a causative cardiac lesion and/or pulmonary hypertension. In fact, some reports suggest a conservative treatment for this specific entity. Therefore we did not operate on our patient and she remains stable at 18 months follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Casselman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Meyns
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Herygers
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Verougstraete
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Van Elst
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Daenen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000517:prevention & control; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed