Acute Pulmonary Artery Dissection With an Ongoing Extrinsic Myocardial Infarction

Vedran Savic, MD, PhD; Larissa Baradaran Rahmanian, MD; Tobias Renner, MD; Maximilian Y. Emmert, MD, PhD; Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Oct 2019)

Acute Pulmonary Artery Dissection With an Ongoing Extrinsic Myocardial Infarction

Vedran Savic, MD, PhD,
Larissa Baradaran Rahmanian, MD,
Tobias Renner, MD,
Maximilian Y. Emmert, MD, PhD,
Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Vedran Savic, MD, PhD: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Larissa Baradaran Rahmanian, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Tobias Renner, MD: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Maximilian Y. Emmert, MD, PhD: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Carlos A. Mestres, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Rämistrasse 100, CH-80981 Zürich, Switzerland.; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 376 – 380

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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. She ultimately died due to multiorgan failure and sepsis. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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