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Acquired aortopulmonary fistula: a case report.

Osama MahmoudHadi EliasArsalan RafiqAmro Alsaid
Published in: European heart journal. Case reports (2020)
Acquired aortopulmonary fistula is a rare clinical entity. We describe a patient who had an insidious presentation of heart failure and found to have a large ascending aortic aneurysm that eroded into the main pulmonary artery creating a fistulous communication. The diagnosis was delayed and required a high index of suspicion and multimodality cardiac imaging.
Keyphrases
  • pulmonary artery
  • aortic aneurysm
  • coronary artery
  • heart failure
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • case report
  • left ventricular
  • high resolution
  • atrial fibrillation
  • fluorescence imaging