Surgical case of isolated pulmonary Takayasu's arteritis.
Involvement of the pulmonary arteries is common in systemic Takayasu's arteritis, but pulmonary arteritis alone is very rare. A 67-year-old woman had severe right pulmonary artery stenosis and left pulmonary arterial obstruction caused by Takayasu's arteritis. Surgical treatment was successfully performed with extracorporeal circulation, without transection of the ascending aorta and the right pulmonary artery was enlarged with an autologous pericardial patch.
Yamazaki
Ichiya
I
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan. pxc02607@nifty.ne.jp
Ichikawa
Yukio
Y
Ishii
Masanori
M
Hamada
Toshiyuki
T
Kajiwara
Hirokazu
H
D000368:Aged; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D001167:Arteritis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000209:etiology; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*