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Surgical repair of pulmonary artery dissection in a patient with 10-year history of Takayasu’s arteritis

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Pulmonary artery (PA) dissection is a rare but life-threatening event, predisposing to sudden cardiac death and cardiogenic shock, and generally occurs in patients with underlying pulmonary hypertension. We report a case of surgical repair of PA dissection in a patient with 10-year history of Takayasu’s arteritis and with no diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension.

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We thank American Medical Writers Association member Charles de Kerckhove for review.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, 852-8501, Japan

    Mizuki Sumi, Koji Hashizume, Takashi Miura, Kazuyoshi Tanigawa, Seiji Matsukuma & Kiyoyuki Eishi

  2. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Satoshi Ikeda & Koji Maemura

  3. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center City Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

    Mizuki Sumi & Koji Hashizume

  4. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

    Naoto Ashizawa & Osamu Araki

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Sumi, M., Hashizume, K., Miura, T. et al. Surgical repair of pulmonary artery dissection in a patient with 10-year history of Takayasu’s arteritis. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 64, 745–748 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-015-0566-3

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