• Internal medicine · Nov 2024

    Lobectomy for Anomalous Systemic Arterial Supply to the Basal Segment of the Lung in the Second Trimester of a Pregnant Patient with Hemoptysis.

    • Mio Sugino, Manabu Suzuki, Mikako Nakamura, Hiroto Hatano, Misao Nakanishi, Kento Misumi, Satoshi Nagasaka, Shinyu Izumi, Masayuki Hojo, and Haruhito Sugiyama.
    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2024 Nov 8.

    AbstractAn anomalous systemic arterial supply to the basal segment of the lung (ABLL) is a rare congenital vascular anomaly. We herein report a case of ABLL in a 26-year-old pregnant woman with hemoptysis. Contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) revealed an abnormal vessel branching directly from the descending aorta and circulating to the left lower lobe while showing a normal bronchial anatomy. The patient was therefore diagnosed with ABLL. Maternal safety was a priority, and the patient underwent thoracoscopic left lower lobectomy at 19 weeks' gestation. We concluded that the hemoptysis had been caused by an increased circulating plasma volume during pregnancy.

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