• Heart Lung · May 2009

    Case Reports

    Pulmonary artery dissection mimicking mediastinal mass.

    • Halil Mutlu, Ihsan Ekin Demir, Lynn N Mutlu, and Daniel Doyle.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA.
    • Heart Lung. 2009 May 1;38(3):233-7.

    AbstractPulmonary artery dissection (PAD) is a rare diagnosis that is often made postmortem in patients with pulmonary hypertension. It can be visualized by echocardiography, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging. We present a patient with emphysematous chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and secondary pulmonary hypertension in whom a PAD appeared like a mediastinal mass on computed tomography. The diagnosis was made at autopsy. We think that physicians should consider the possibility of a PAD in patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension who present with dyspnea and chest pain.

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