Pulmonary Arteriopathy in Patients with Mild Pulmonary Valve Abnormality Without Pulmonary Hypertension Or Intracardiac Shunt Karam Obeid1*, Subeer K
Original Scientific Article Journal of Structural Heart Disease, June 2018, Received: September 13, 2017 Volume 4, Issue 3:79-84 Accepted: September 27, 2017 Published online: June 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12945/j.jshd.2018.040.18 Pulmonary Arteriopathy in Patients with Mild Pulmonary Valve Abnormality without Pulmonary Hypertension or Intracardiac Shunt Karam Obeid1*, Subeer K. Wadia, MD2, Gentian Lluri, MD, PhD2, Cherise Meyerson, MD3, Gregory A. Fishbein, MD3, Leigh C. Reardon, MD2, Jamil Aboulhosn, MD2 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 3 Department of Pathology, Ronald Reagan/UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA Abstract benign course without episodes of dissection or rup- Background: The natural history of pulmonary artery ture despite 6/11 patients with PAA ≥ 5 cm. PA dilation aneurysms (PAA) without pulmonary hypertension, progresses slowly over time and does not appear to intracardiac shunt or significant pulmonary valvular cause secondary events. Echocardiography correlates disease has not been well studied. This study looks to well with magnetic resonance imaging and computed describe the outcome of a cohort of adults with PAA tomography and is useful in measuring PAA over time. without significant pulmonic regurgitation and steno- Copyright © 2018 Science International Corp. sis. Imaging modalities utilized to evaluate pulmonary artery (PA) size and valvular pathology are reviewed. Key Words Methods: Patients with PAA followed at the Ahmanson/ Pulmonary artery aneurysm • Pulmonary stenosis • UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center were in- Pulmonary hypertension • Aortic aneurysm cluded in this retrospective analysis.
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