Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm: A Rare Cause of Fatal Massive Hemoptysis

Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm: A Rare Cause of Fatal Massive Hemoptysis

Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm (PAPA), an uncommon complication of pyogenic bacterial and fungal infections and related septic emboli, is associated with high mortality. The pulmonary artery (PA) lacks an adventitial wall; therefore, repeated endovascular seeding of the PA with septic emboli create...

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Main Authors: Himaja Koneru, Sreeja Biswas Roy, Monirul Islam, Hesham Abdelrazek, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Nikhil Madan, Pradnya D. Patil, Tanmay S. Panchabhai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pulmonology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8251967
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