title: Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Aspergilloma-Coexistence of Two Rare Sequelae of Pulmonary Embolism.
abstract: We report a 42 year old non-smoker male who presented with progressive exertional dyspnoea, productive cough with streaky hemoptysis and progressive pedal edema. His physical examination, ECG, chest X-ray and 2D-ECHO revealed features suggestive of right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. On further evaluation for the cause of pulmonary hypertension, his CT pulmonary angiography revealed features of chronic pulmonary thromboembolism with calcified thrombus in the main pulmonary artery along with pulmonary hypertension. Incidentally the CT also revealed a cavity in the right lung with soft tissue within it. A, trans-thoracic needle aspiration of this tissue was suggestive of an aspergilloma. This is a rare case report of co-existence of two uncommon complications of pulmonary embolism-chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary Aspergilloma in the same patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India.
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bhartiya
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India.
authors.forename: Puneet
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India.
authors.forename: Dharmender
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Sashindran
keywords: Aspergilloma; Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Deep venous thrombosis; Pulmonary infarction