Transcatheter treatment of pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm using a PDA closure device.
Aneurysm of the branch pulmonary arteries are rare. The treatment options vary from case to case and include either surgery or percutaneous transcatheter treatment. The authors report a case of a 13-year-old boy who presented with a large pseudoaneurysm arising from the left lower lobe pulmonary artery. It was treated successfully by occluding the neck of the pseudoaneurysm by endovascular deployment of a patent ductus arteriosus closure device across it. There were no complications and the repeat computed tomography angiography of the patient at 3 weeks followup revealed no flow inside the thrombosed smaller aneurysm.
Jagia
Priya
P
Division of Cardiac Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India. rjuneja2@gmail.com
Sharma
Sanjiv
S
Juneja
Rajnish
R
Guleria
Randeep
R
D000293:Adolescent; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D018570:Risk Assessment; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome