Cardiovocal Syndrome (Ortner's Syndrome) Associated with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension and Giant Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Cardiovocal Syndrome (Ortner's Syndrome) Associated with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension and Giant Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Cardiovocal syndrome or Ortner's syndrome is hoarseness due to left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy caused by mechanical affection of the nerve from enlarged cardiovascular structures. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is extremely rarely found to cause this syndrome. We describe a...

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Main Authors: Jaakko Heikkinen, Katrin Milger, Enrique Alejandre-Lafont, Christian Woitzik, Detlef Litzlbauer, Julia-Franziska Vogt, Jens Peter Klußmann, Ardeschir Ghofrani, Gabriele A. Krombach, Henning Tiede
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/230736

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/230736

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