title: Surgical treatment of primary pulmonary artery sarcoma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pulmonary artery sarcoma originating from the pulmonary artery is a rare disease and its prognosis is extremely poor. Most patients are initially thought to have pulmonary embolism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five patients (3 males and 2 females, mean age was (42.0 ± 8.5) years) of primary pulmonary artery sarcomas underwent surgical procedures. Sarcoma resection and right ventricle outflow tract reconstruction were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was no death 30 days post-operation except one patient. The function of heart was improved to NYHA II.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Given the significant morbidity and mortality of pulmonary artery sarcomas, an aggressive strategy for resection is indicated. Early diagnosis and complete surgical resection is perhaps the best way to improve patients' survival with pulmonary artery sarcoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, First Hospital of Tsinghua University, Beijing 100016, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Qing-Yu
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome