Interim prostacyclin therapy for an isolated disconnected pulmonary artery: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Disconnected pulmonary arteries are unusual and may result in pulmonary hypertension with acute right heart failure. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a three-month-old Asian girl who presented with heart failure and severe pulmonary hypertension due to a disconnected right pulmon...

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Autores principales: Grech, Victor, Grixti, Cynthia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20525186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-168
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description INTRODUCTION: Disconnected pulmonary arteries are unusual and may result in pulmonary hypertension with acute right heart failure. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a three-month-old Asian girl who presented with heart failure and severe pulmonary hypertension due to a disconnected right pulmonary artery. An epoprostenol (prostacyclin) infusion was instrumental in lowering pulmonary artery pressures and stabilizing the child prior to surgery. CONCLUSIONS: This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of successful prostacyclin usage in such a situation.
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spelling pubmed-28948602010-07-01 Interim prostacyclin therapy for an isolated disconnected pulmonary artery: a case report Grech, Victor Grixti, Cynthia J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Disconnected pulmonary arteries are unusual and may result in pulmonary hypertension with acute right heart failure. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a three-month-old Asian girl who presented with heart failure and severe pulmonary hypertension due to a disconnected right pulmonary artery. An epoprostenol (prostacyclin) infusion was instrumental in lowering pulmonary artery pressures and stabilizing the child prior to surgery. CONCLUSIONS: This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of successful prostacyclin usage in such a situation. BioMed Central 2010-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2894860/ /pubmed/20525186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-168 Text en Copyright ©2010 Grech et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Interim prostacyclin therapy for an isolated disconnected pulmonary artery: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894860/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-168
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