Acquired right ventricular outflow tract obstruction after lung transplantation: diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography.
Acute reduction in pulmonary pressures after lung transplantation for severe chronic pulmonary hypertension may produce a sudden decrease in cavity size of a hypertrophied right ventricle resulting in acquired right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. This case illustrates the utility of transesophageal echocardiography with continuous-wave Doppler to make a morphologic as well as hemodynamic diagnosis of acquired right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in a patient after lung transplantation.
Gorcsan
J
J
Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213.
Reddy
S C
SC
Armitage
J M
JM
Griffith
B P
BP
D004452:Echocardiography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D017380:Hypertrophy, Right Ventricular / Q000150:complications; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*