PDA with Eisenmenger complicated by pulmonary artery dissection.
A 49-year-old lady, known to have Eisenmenger PDA, careful transthoracic echocardiogram, showed clear evidence for pulmonary trunk dissection with a flap across the pulmonary trunk and this finding was confirmed by a CT scan.
Zhao
Ying
Y
Ultrasound Department, Beijing AnZhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Li
Zhi-An
ZA
Henein
Michael Y
MY
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