Surgical experience for the pulmonary artery sarcoma.
BACKGROUND
Pulmonary sarcoma arising from the pulmonary artery is a rare disease and its prognosis is disastrous.


METHODS
Five patients who underwent surgery for pulmonary artery sarcoma were reviewed.


RESULTS
All patients except one were initially diagnosed with pulmonary embolism. One patient with preoperative profound shock could not wean from cardiopulmonary bypass. Two patients are still surviving for 36 and 30 months, respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
Early diagnosis and complete surgical resection is perhaps the best way to improve patients with pulmonary artery sarcoma.
Maruo
Ayako
A
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. ayakom@hbhc.jp
Okita
Yutaka
Y
Okada
Kenji
K
Yamashita
Teruo
T
Tobe
Satoshi
S
Tanimura
Nobuhiro
N
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*