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Pulmonary arterial stent implantation in an adult with Williams syndrome.

Abstract
We report a 38-year-old patient who presented with pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular dysfunction due to pulmonary artery stenoses as a manifestation of Williams syndrome, mimicking chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. The patient was treated with balloon angioplasty and stent implantation. Short-term follow-up showed a good clinical result with excellent patency of the stents but early restenosis of the segments in which only balloon angioplasty was performed. These stenoses were subsequently also treated successfully by stent implantation. Stent patency was observed 3 years after the first procedure.
AuthorsHerre J Reesink, Onno D F Henneman, Otto M van Delden, Jules D Biervliet, Jaap J Kloek, Jim A Reekers, Paul Bresser
JournalCardiovascular and interventional radiology (Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol) 2007 Jul-Aug Vol. 30 Issue 4 Pg. 782-5 ISSN: 0174-1551 [Print] United States
PMID17401760 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Adult
  • Angiography, Digital Subtraction
  • Angioplasty, Balloon
  • Chromosome Deletion
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary (diagnostic imaging, genetics, therapy)
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Pulmonary Artery (diagnostic imaging)
  • Pulmonary Atresia (diagnostic imaging, genetics, therapy)
  • Pulmonary Embolism (diagnostic imaging, therapy)
  • Retreatment
  • Stents
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Williams Syndrome (diagnostic imaging, genetics, therapy)

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