A case of a pulmonary artery sling misdiagnosed as refractory asthma for 20 years.
Toshihide InuiHideyasu YamadaNorihito HidaHideo TerashimaTakefumi SaitoNobuyuki HizawaPublished in: Clinical case reports (2017)
We report the case of a 25-year-old woman with a pulmonary artery sling who was misdiagnosed as having childhood-onset refractory asthma for approximately 20 years. The use of computed tomography may be useful for diagnosing this rare condition.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary artery
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- computed tomography
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- lung function
- urinary incontinence
- allergic rhinitis
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- cystic fibrosis
- magnetic resonance
- young adults
- contrast enhanced
- childhood cancer