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Respiratory distress due to tracheal compression by the dilated innominate artery
1First Dept of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
The European Respiratory Journal
|October 30, 1999
Abstract:
The case reported is of an 88 yr old female with hypertension and respiratory distress. A chest radiograph revealed a widening of the upper mediastinum. Computed tomographic scanning revealed tracheal compression by the innominate artery, which was elongated and curved. After intubation, she was treated with antihypertensive drugs. This resulted in the remarkable recovery of the patient from respiratory distress. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported case of respiratory distress owing to tracheal compression by elongation and curvature of the innominate artery.