Left main artery compression by pulmonary artery aneurysm and ostial athero-stenosis of left anterior descending artery in a young female with pulmonary arterial hypertension | Zendy

Marcin Demkow | Zendy; Łukasz Kalińczuk | Zendy; Cezary Kępka | Zendy; Marcin Kurzyna | Zendy; Adam Torbicki | Zendy

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Left main artery compression by pulmonary artery aneurysm and ostial athero-stenosis of left anterior descending artery in a young female with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Author(s) -

Marcin Demkow,

Łukasz Kalińczuk,

Cezary Kępka,

Marcin Kurzyna,

Adam Torbicki

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs195

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , left pulmonary artery , chest pain , pulmonary artery , stenosis , radiology , artery

A 29-year-old patient (♀) with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, WHO functional class IV) treated with sildenafil, treprostinil, and nifedipine suddenly developed recurrent chest pain at rest, accompanied by an acute inversion of T-waves in V3–V6 and a troponin I increase of up to 1.9 ng/mL. Progressive pulmonary trunk dilatation was observed in all her previous echocardiography examinations. Multi-detector computer tomography scan (128 row dual source SOMATOM Definition, Siemens, Forchheim, Germany) revealed huge (∼70 mm) aneurysmal …

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