Successful Treatment of Pulmonary Artery Aneurysms Secondary to Possible Behçet’s Disease

Mahendran, C.; Singh, Parminderpal; Mani, Naganathan; Jindal, Swati

doi:10.1159/000063262

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“…Infectious etiologies include bacterial infections, especially with right-sided endocarditis [4]; fungal infections such as mucormycosis [4]; and parasitic infection as in Chagas disease [5]. Several vasculitides have also been associated with pulmonary artery aneurysms, including Bechet's disease [6], HughesStoven's syndrome [7], Takayasu's arteritis, and giant cell arteritis [6]. In addition, dissecting aneurysms of the pulmonary artery have been reported due to complex cardiovascular anomalies such as Taussig-Bing mal- Congenital Heart Disease formation [8], after Blalock operation for Tetralogy of Fallot [9], and secondary to amyloidosis [10].…”

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A full house: Complications from an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus

Khush

Randhawa²,

Israel³

2005

Curr Cardiol Rep

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True aneurysms of the pulmonary artery are rare, and are most often due to pulmonary hypertension arising from congenital heart defects. We report the case of a 40-year-old man with an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus who presented with pulmonary infarction and pneumonia, and subsequently died of cardiac arrest. Autopsy revealed a large pulmonary artery aneurysm, in situ pulmonary artery thrombosis complicated by pulmonary infarction, pulmonary artery dissection, and cardiac tamponade. Although each of these complications is rare in and of itself, this case demonstrates the entire spectrum of complications from a single uncorrected congenital cardiac anomaly.

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A full house: Complications from an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus

Khush

Randhawa²,

Israel³

2005

Curr Cardiol Rep

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“…[4] There are very few reported cases from India. [5] It generally begins in the third decade of life, but could present at any age. It tends to occur more often in men than in women.…”

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Right hilar mass with hemoptysis: An unusual presentation of uncommon disorder

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Common differential diagnosis of lung and hilar opacity includes infectious pathology or a mitotic lesion. Behcet's disease (BD) is a rarely diagnosed disease in Indian subcontinent. BD is a multisystem inflammatory disorder that presents with recurrent orogenital ulceration, uveitis, and erythema nodosum. We present here the case of a patient who presented with recurrent hemoptysis with radiological picture of hilar mass, during the evaluation of which the diagnosis of BD was established.

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“…Corticosteroids attenuated the interstitial infiltration witnessed in our patient but presumably were inadequate to suppress the vasculitis that was driving it. In our experience, regression of aneurysms, usually with a corticosteroid/cyclophosphamide combination, is well described [10, 11]and therefore their original formation can presumably also be suppressed.…”

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