Right Heart Failure Secondary to Compression of the Right Pulmonary Artery by a Syphilitic Aortic Aneurysm

A 68-year-old man presented with right heart failure due to compression of the right pulmonary artery by a syphilitic aneurysm of the ascending aorta. The diagnosis was made by cardiac catheterization and angiography and it was proven by autopsy. This complication is unusual and supports the experim...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Chest 1977-10, Vol.72 (4), p.530-532
Hauptverfasser:	Iskandrian, Abdulmassih, Kimbiris, Demetrios, Pennock, Poul C., Segal, Bernard, Choong, Shung Sen
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Aortic Aneurysm - complications Aortic Aneurysm - diagnosis Aortic Valve Insufficiency - complications Aortography Arterial Occlusive Diseases - complications Arterial Occlusive Diseases - etiology Calcinosis - complications Cardiac Catheterization Heart Diseases - etiology Humans Hypertension, Pulmonary - etiology Male Pulmonary Artery - diagnostic imaging Syphilis - complications
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Zusammenfassung:	A 68-year-old man presented with right heart failure due to compression of the right pulmonary artery by a syphilitic aneurysm of the ascending aorta. The diagnosis was made by cardiac catheterization and angiography and it was proven by autopsy. This complication is unusual and supports the experimental evidence that unilateral pulmonary obstruction may be responsible for the development of pulmonary hypertension.
ISSN:	0012-3692 1931-3543
DOI:	10.1378/chest.72.4.530