Echocardiographic Findings of Idiopathic Dilatation of the Pulmonary Artery

We present the findings in a 56-year-old man with idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery who had a large saccular dilatation of the pulmonary artery on the angiogram and systolic flattering of the pulmonic valvular leaflet and dilatation of the pulmonary artery on the echocardiogram. Although...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chest 1977-05, Vol.71 (5), p.671-673
Hauptverfasser: Asayama, Jun, Matsuura, Tohru, Endo, Naoto, Watanabe, Toshimitsu, Matsukubo, Haruo, Furukawa, Keizo, Ijichi, Hamao
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Zusammenfassung:We present the findings in a 56-year-old man with idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery who had a large saccular dilatation of the pulmonary artery on the angiogram and systolic flattering of the pulmonic valvular leaflet and dilatation of the pulmonary artery on the echocardiogram. Although a number of cases of large dilatations of the pulmonary artery have been previously described, the echocardiographic findings of the disease have not been reported.
ISSN:0012-3692
1931-3543
DOI:10.1378/chest.71.5.671