Acute Pulmonary Artery Dissection With an Ongoing Extrinsic Myocardial Infarction

A patient with chronic pulmonary artery hypertension and acute dissection of a main and right pulmonary aneurysm (82 mm) presented with acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock secondary to compression of the left main coronary artery. She required emergency pulmonary artery replacement. Sh...

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Main Authors: Vedran Savic, MD, PhD, Larissa Baradaran Rahmanian, MD, Tobias Renner, MD, Maximilian Y. Emmert, MD, PhD, Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-10-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084919302967