Idiopathic pulmonary arterial trunk aneurysm presenting as cor pulmonale: report of a case.
An elderly woman who presented with cor pulmonale and intractable right heart failure was found at autopsy to have a thrombosed aneurysm of the pulmonary arterial trunk. This case is unusual in that no associated congenital cardiopulmonary anomaly, vascular myxoid degeneration, pulmonary parenchymal disease, or thromboembolism was found.
D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic