Giant Pulmonary Artery Thrombotic Material, Due to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, Mimics Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma

Giant Pulmonary Artery Thrombotic Material, Due to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, Mimics Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma

In this article, we present the case of a 38-year-old female who suffered from serious respiratory distress. After an extensive pulmonary artery imaging diagnostic work-up (CTPA, MRA and PET), we were unable to differentiate between chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) vs. pulmonary...

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Main Authors: Helen Triantafyllidi, Dimitrios Iordanidis, Aikaterini Mpahara, Maria Mademli, Dionyssia Birmpa, Stylianos Argentos, Dimitrios Benas, Paraskevi Trivilou, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos, Eckhard Mayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Medicina
Subjects:
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
pulmonary artery sarcoma
pulmonary endarterectomy
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/9/992

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