Related Articles Balloon angioplasty for pulmonary artery stenosis after lung transplantation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2008 Jul 16; Authors: Shoji T, Hanaoka N, Wada H, Bando T We report here a successful case of balloon angioplasty for a stenosis of the pulmonary artery after lung transplantation. A 49-year-old patient with end stage diffuse bronchiectasis with sinusitis underwent bilateral living donor lobar lung transplantation. After treatment of postoperative right pneumothorax, a perfusion lung scan revealed deficient perfusion in the left lung. Pulmonary angiography showed a severe stenosis in the left pulmonary artery just distal to the anastomosis. Percutaneous balloon angioplasty improved both pulmonary perfusion and respiratory function. PMID: 18639464 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] ...
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