Managing Incidental Pulmonary Artery Dissection in PAH


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
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Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain.
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Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center. Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Madrid, Spain.
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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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