Federico Fontana, Filippo Piacentino, Marco Curti, Anna Maria Ierardi, Andrea Coppola, Edoardo Macchi, Giuseppe De Marchi, Eliodoro Faiella, Domiziana Santucci, Lorenzo Paolo Moramarco, Filippo Del Grande, Gabriele Piffaretti, Matteo Tozzi, Andrea Imperatori, Giulio Carcano, Antonio Basile, Fabio D'Angelo, Gianpaolo Carrafiello, Massimo Venturini
The purpose of this bicentric case series was to report the safety, efficacy, and clinical outcome of transcatheter embolization in pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms (PAPAs). Between January 2016 and June 2021, eight patients with PAPA were subjected to transcatheter embolization. The total number of patients was eight, of which five were female, with a mean age of 62 ± 14 years (average ± standard deviation). Etiology was traumatic in 2/8 cases and iatrogenic in 6/8 cases (after positioning a Swan-Ganz catheter in 5/6 cases and a temporary pacemaker in the latter case)...
May 31, 2023: Journal of Clinical Medicine