Small Left Atrium: An Adjunctive Sign of Hemodynamically Compromised Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Yonsei Medical Journal
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: 733-736, 2005.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common disease with a high mortality rate due to right ventricular dysfunction and underfilling of the left ventricle. We present a case of a 33-year-old man with hemodynamically compromised massive PE. His left atrium was collapsed with marked dilatation of the right atrium and ventricle on multi-detector-row CT scans. The patient was treated with an intracatheter injection of a mutant tissue-type plasminogen activator and subsequently showed clinical and radiological improvements. The small left atrial size in combination with a right ventricular pressure overload was considered to be an adjunctive sign of hemodynamically compromised massive PE.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Pulmonary Embolism
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Echocardiography
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Dilatation, Pathologic
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Heart Atria
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Yonsei Medical Journal
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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