Massive Occlusion of the Main Pulmonary Artery and Primary Branches

Massive occlusion of the main pulmonary artery and primary branches; case report.

[ASSIVE occlusion of the main pulmonary artery and its primary branches is believed seldom compatible with prolonged survival. However, a number of reports exist indicating a duration of from several months to several years. No documented cases were found to compare, either in length of life after the episode or in degree of pulmonary artery occlusion, with our patient who survived about 6 year...

Iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection mimicking complete proximal occlusion of the left main branches.

Congenital pressure gradients between main pulmonary artery and its primary branches.

course of 594 diagnostic cardiac catheterizations. They occurred either alone: i6 cases (group I) or more often combined with congenital heart disease: IIO cases (group 2), about half of which were atrial septal defect. Angiographicfindings and pressure gradients were correlated in 33 cases. A minor gradient across thejunction of the main pulnonary artery with one of the branch pulmonary arteri...

Bilateral occlusion of basilar artery branches.

In a case in which the patient became totally paralysed except for blinking and vertical eye movements, microscopic serial sections of the pons showed bilateral infarcts which were due to occlusion of two small basilar branch arteries, one on each side. One basilar branch was occluded by an atheroma lying at its junction with the basilar artery and the other by an intramural dissection within t...

Total Occlusion of Left Main Coronary Artery by Dilated Main Pulmonary Artery in a Patient with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

A 34-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of recently aggravated right heart failure without angina for 5 months. When she was 25 years old, patch repair with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) was performed for the secondum type of atrial septal defect (ASD) with moderate pulmonary hypertension. The chest PA, echocardiography and cardiac catheterization at current admission revealed...