Right ventricular obstruction in aortic dissection: a mechanism of hemodynamic collapse.

Downey, R J; Austin, J H; Pepino, P; Dickstein, M L; Homma, S; Rose, E A · Ann Thorac Surg · 1996

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

The main and right pulmonary arteries may be compressed by the false lumen of a type I aortic dissection. We report a 73-year-old women with a dissection of the aorta in whom echocardiographic examination revealed acute pulmonary arterial compression causing right ventricular failure and hemodynamic collapse.

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