The Diagnosis of Congenital Aneurysm of the Pulmonary Artery

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
THE literature is filled with accounts of dilatations or aneurysms of the pulmonary artery. Notable reviews of the literature have been written by Brenner,1 Boyd and McGavack2 and, recently, Deterling and Clagett.3 Among the factors commonly accepted as causes of pulmonary-artery dilatation and aneurysm are infectious processes (such as syphilis and mycotic infection), congenital defects causing secondary dilatation (septal patency, patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonic stenosis, transposition of the great vessels and other less common lesions), rheumatic mitral stenosis, a variety of chronic pulmonary diseases that may cause pulmonary hypertension, thoracic deformities, cardiac failure and possibly trauma.By our definition, congenital . . .

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit: