Echocardiographic diagnosis of a pulmonary artery aneurysm.
Aneurysm of the pulmonary artery is an uncommon anomaly which may be very difficult to diagnose without angiography. The present report demonstrates that the echocardiographic diagnosis of a pulmonary artery aneurysm is feasible. Correlation between chest X-ray, echocardiogram, cardiac catheterization, angiography and necropsy is presented. Several echocardiographic features of the pulmonic valve motion in pulmonary hypertension, not previously described, are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000150:complications; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery