Right Pulmonary Artery Agenesis: A Case Report.
- Author:
Dong Keun SHIN
1
;
Min Ho KIM
;
Kong Soo KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Pulmonary artery, agenesis;
Digital subtraction angiogram
- MeSH:
Diagnosis;
Hemoptysis;
Humans;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Pulmonary Artery*;
Tetralogy of Fallot;
Thorax
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1997;30(1):108-112
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Congenital unilateral agenesis of pulmonary artery is a rare anomaly and it usually occurs in association with other cardiac anomaly such as tetralogy of Fallot. Since most patients affected by this defect without associated congenital cardiac anomaly or pulmonary infection are asymptomatic, the clinical diagnosis of this anomaly is first recognized by a characteristic pattern in chest roentgenogram taken as a routine checking; the findings on chest film sonsists of cardiac and mediastinal displacement, absence of the pulmonary arterial shadow, smaller hemithorax, and elevationof the hemidiaphragm, all on the affected side. We experienced right pulmonary artery agenesis in a 48 year-old male, who complained of massive hemoptysis, and it was diagnosed by digital subtraction pulmonary arteriogram and perfusin scan, and treated by right middle and lower lobe bi-lobectomy, and we report this case with the review of relevant literatures.
