Right pulmonary agenesis in an elderly woman complicated by transient ischemic attack

Abstract

There are few case reports regarding patients with right lung agenesis living to old age because of both severe mediastinal and cardiac displacements. We report a 61-year-old woman with right pulmonary agenesis complicated by a transient ischemic attack that was evaluated by a three-dimensional reconstruction of helical computed tomography and an echocardiography. This patient was able to survive until old age because she had no critical anomalies in other organs including the heart. A mitral valve prolapse was detected by a twodimensional echocardiography and we treated her with anti-platelet aggregation therapy for the prevention of recurrent stroke. © 2011 The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.