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

Author(s):
Nuche, J.; Cabezas, J.M.M.; Charterina, S.A.; Subias, P.E.
Published
2019
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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.

Pulmonary artery dissectionPulmonary arterial hypertensionComputed tomographySudden cardiac death
Date issued
2019-07-01
Language
English
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
Is part of
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (2019), Vol. 56, no. 1, p. 210-212
hdl
1887/122128
doi
10.1093/ejcts/ezy387