PULMONARY-ARTERY ANEURYSM - IS SURGERY ALWAYS INDICATED

The authors present a seventy-eight year old woman with an aneurysm of the main pulmonary artery. Although a surgical approach is generally considered life-saving by preventing rupture of the aneurysm, literatu re is unclear about possible rupture in the specific situation of a pu lmonary artery aneurysm without a causative cardiac lesion and/or pulm onary hypertension. In fact, some reports suggest a conservative treat ment for this specific entity. Therefore we did not operate on our pat ient and she remains stable at 18 month follow-up.