Acute pulmonary trunk dissection in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension

J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2000 Jan-Feb;24(1):92-5. doi: 10.1097/00004728-200001000-00019.

Abstract

Spiral CT imaging findings including multiplanar reconstructions of an acute dissection of the pulmonary trunk in a 22-year-old female patient with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) are presented and discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Adult
  • Aortic Dissection / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Dissection / etiology*
  • Aortic Dissection / surgery
  • Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / complications*
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery* / diagnostic imaging
  • Pulmonary Artery* / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*