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Reoperation of Pulmonary Artery Intimal Sarcoma for Recurrence After Pulmonary Artery Replacement [PDF]
Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma has very poor prognosis, for which radical resection may be difficult. A 68-year-old man with pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma underwent bilateral pulmonary artery resection and replacement.
Kentaro Miyazaki, MD +8 more
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Introduction. Intimal sarcoma is a very rare tumor arising within the intima of the pulmonary artery. Preoperative diagnosis of pulmonary artery sarcoma is difficult, and the tumor is sometimes misdiagnosed as pulmonary thromboembolism.
Daiki Kato +11 more
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Pulmonary artery blood flow dynamics in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is caused by incomplete resolution and organization of thrombi. Blood flow dynamics are involved in thrombus formation; however, only a few studies have reported on pulmonary artery blood flow dynamics in ...
Hideo Tsubata +8 more
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The vibration of the heart valves’ closure is an important component of the heart sound and contains important information about the mechanical activity of a heart.
Jiachen Mi +3 more
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Peripheral pulmonary stenosis with Noonan syndrome treated by balloon pulmonary angioplasty
Noonan syndrome is known to have various cardiovascular defects, which include pulmonary artery stenosis. Pulmonary artery stenosis is characterized by obstruction of pulmonary artery blood flow that can cause elevated pulmonary artery pressure and ...
Seien Ko +9 more
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Frequency of various cardiac complications in children with repaired tetralogy of Fallot identified by computer tomography [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Tetralogy of Fallot represents 7–10% of all cases of congenital heart disease, as it occurs in approximately 0.5 per 1,000 live births and is the second most common form of complex congenital heart disease.
Azhar M. Kabdullina +7 more
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension [PDF]
Key pointsPAH is defined by RHC showing a pre-capillary PH.Clinical suspicion of PH should arise in the case of symptoms such as dyspnoea without overt signs of specific heart or lung disease.RHC is required to confirm the diagnosis of PAH, to assess the severity of the haemodynamic impairment and to test the vasoreactivity of the pulmonary circulation.
D, Montani +5 more
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension [PDF]
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a progressive disease of pulmonary vasculature characterized by increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure and elevated vascular resistance with normal left-sided pressures, differentiating it from left-sided heart disease.
Aydin, Uzunpinar, Mehmet, Cilingiroglu
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Pulmonary artery sarcomas are rare, high-grade malignancies, primarily affecting the proximal elastic pulmonary artery and usually manifesting as tumoral impaction on imaging.
Min Seong Kim +3 more
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Pulmonary artery filling defects - Not all are pulmonary emboli
Differentiating pulmonary artery sarcoma from pulmonary artery emboli is challenging since the clinical presentation and imaging features of both conditions are often similar. Timely differentiation of the two conditions is important as delayed diagnosis
M. C. Wettasinghe +2 more
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