| Title | Balloon angioplasty for pulmonary artery stenosis after lung transplantation. | | Author(s) | Shoji T, Hanaoka N, Wada H, Bando T | | Institution | Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. | | Source | Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008 Jul 16. | | Abstract | We report here a successful case of balloon angioplasty for a stenosis of the pulmonary artery after lung transplantation. A 49-year-old patient with end stage diffuse bronchiectasis with sinusitis underwent bilateral living donor lobar lung transplantation. After treatment of postoperative right pneumothorax, a perfusion lung scan revealed deficient perfusion in the left lung. Pulmonary angiography showed a severe stenosis in the left pulmonary artery just distal to the anastomosis. Percutaneous balloon angioplasty improved both pulmonary perfusion and respiratory function. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 18639464 |
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