RIGHT-VENTRICULAR OBSTRUCTION IN AORTIC DISSECTION - A MECHANISM OF HEMODYNAMIC COLLAPSE

Authors
DOWNEY RJ AUSTIN JHM PEPINO P DICKSTEIN ML HOMMA S ROSE EA
Citation
Rj. Downey et al., RIGHT-VENTRICULAR OBSTRUCTION IN AORTIC DISSECTION - A MECHANISM OF HEMODYNAMIC COLLAPSE, The Annals of thoracic surgery, 61(3), 1996, pp. 988-990
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The Annals of thoracic surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00034975
Volume
61
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
988 - 990
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4975(1996)61:3<988:ROIAD->2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The main and right pulmonary arteries may be compressed by the false l umen of a type I aortic dissection. We report a 73-year-old women with a dissection of the aorta in whom echocardiographic examination revea led acute pulmonary arterial compression causing right ventricular fai lure and hemodynamic collapse.