Transcatheter treatment of pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm using a PDA closure device

Diagn Interv Radiol. 2011 Mar;17(1):92-4. doi: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.2657-09.1. Epub 2009 Sep 25.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnostic imaging
  • Aneurysm, False / therapy*
  • Angiography / methods
  • Balloon Occlusion / instrumentation*
  • Balloon Occlusion / methods
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pulmonary Artery*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Septal Occluder Device
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods
  • Treatment Outcome