Pulmonary arterial stent implantation in an adult with Williams syndrome

Herre J Reesink; Onno D F Henneman; Otto M van Delden; Jules D Biervliet; Jaap J Kloek; Jim A Reekers; Paul Bresser

doi:10.1007/s00270-007-9009-6

Pulmonary arterial stent implantation in an adult with Williams syndrome

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2007 Jul-Aug;30(4):782-5. doi: 10.1007/s00270-007-9009-6.

Authors

Herre J Reesink¹, Onno D F Henneman, Otto M van Delden, Jules D Biervliet, Jaap J Kloek, Jim A Reekers, Paul Bresser

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pulmonology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, F5-144, PO Box 22700, 1100, DE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Angiography, Digital Subtraction
Angioplasty, Balloon*
Chromosome Deletion
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
Hypertension, Pulmonary / genetics
Hypertension, Pulmonary / therapy*
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Pulmonary Artery* / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Atresia / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Atresia / genetics
Pulmonary Atresia / therapy*
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Embolism / therapy
Retreatment
Stents*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Williams Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
Williams Syndrome / genetics
Williams Syndrome / therapy*