The authors present a four-year follow-up of a patient with a single isolated right main pulmonary artery stenosis without an associated cardiac anomaly. This is an extremely uncommon lesion thought to be congenital. This case illustrates the stability of isolated lesions of the pulmonary vasculature without associated cardiac defects.
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