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Research·July 16, 2026

Managing Incidental Pulmonary Artery Dissection in PAH

By Medicidiom · 1 min read
Managing Incidental Pulmonary Artery Dissection in PAH

Management of incidentally diagnosed pulmonary artery dissection in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Jorge Nuche MD 1, José-Manuel Montero-Cabezas MD2, Ana Lareo MD1, Carmen Jiménez López-Guarch MD, PhD1,4, Maite Velázquez-Martín MD1, Sergio Alonso-Charterina MD, PhD3, Yolanda Revilla-Ostolaza3 MD, Fernando Arribas-Ynsaurriaga MD, PhD1,4, Pilar Escribano-Subías MD, PhD1,4

Affiliations

  1. Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain.

  2. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center. Leiden, The Netherlands.

  3. Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain.

  4. CIBER de enfermedades CardioVasculares (CIBERCV), Spain

Received: 12 September 2018 Accepted: 23 October 2018 Published: 07 December 2018

Keywords: Pulmonary artery aneurysm, Pulmonary arterial hypertension, cardiac magnetic resonance, computed tomography.

Abstract

Pulmonary artery dissection is a rare entity, usually discovered post-mortem. In recent years, reported cases of living patients with a pulmonary artery dissection are growing and represent a challenging situation for clinicians.

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