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Table 3 Causes for pulmonary artery aneurysms without arteriovenous communication (adapted from Fischer et al [18])

From: Hughes-Stovin Syndrome

1.

Infection

 

Tuberculosis (Rasmussen's aneurysms)

 

Syphilitic

 

Other (bacterial and fungal); may arise from right sided endocarditis

2.

Structural cardiac abnormalities

 

Congenital heart disease

 

Acquired cardiac abnormalities

 

Structural vascular abnormalities

 

Congenital

 

Cystic medionecrosis/atherosclerosis

 

Acquired

 

Marfan's syndrome

 

Behçet's disease

3.

Pulmonary hypertension

4.

Idiopathic vasculitic syndromes

 

Hughes-Stovin syndrome

 

Behçet's disease

5.

Trauma (for example, from a Swan-Ganz catheter)

6.

Miscellaneous