Pulmonary artery dissection and rupture in Eisenmenger's syndrome.
A patient with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary arterial hypertension (Eisenmenger's syndrome) associated with aortic coarctation with follow-up for 19 years, and with rupture of an aneurysmatic pulmonary artery is described. An incident of extreme fright with a possible transient systemic hypertension may have precipitated the dissection of the pulmonary arterial intima and the rupture.
D000293:Adolescent; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D004541:Eisenmenger Complex / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000473:pathology; D012421:Rupture