Commentary: Is there more than one way to skin a pulmonary artery aneurysm?

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

Published: June 2020

Pulmonary artery (PA) aneurysm, a rare complication of PA hypertension, poses a technical challenge at lung transplantation. The authors describe an elegant solution performed successfully 7 times among 128 PH patients undergoing LTX.

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