Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery
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Case Reports
[Surgical treatment of PDA in the elderly patient accompanied with aneurysm of the main pulmonary artery].
A case of the elder PDA with aneurysm of the main pulmonary artery is reported. The patient was a 59-year-old female who had been suffering from severe heart failure. ⋯ The pathological finding of the aneurysm of the main pulmonary artery is a cystic mucoid degeneration like a finding of Marfan syndrome. The etiology of the aneurysm of the main pulmonary artery seems to be extended Ao-PA shunt besides somewhat congenital change of the pulmonary artery.