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Right ventricular obstruction in aortic dissection: a mechanism of hemodynamic collapse
R J Downey1, J H Austin, P Pepino
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York 10021, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 1, 1996
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.