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Pulmonary artery rupture in pregnancy complicating patent ductus arteriosus
1Department of Pathology, Birmingham Maternity Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Edgbaston.
British Heart Journal
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
Fatal haemopericardium in a 27 year old pregnant woman was caused by rupture of a dissecting aneurysm of the pulmonary artery. She had an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus and severe pulmonary hypertension. The wall of the pulmonary artery showed atherosclerosis and cystic medionecrosis.