CASE HISTORY / CLINIC:
Patient with lower limb deep venous thrombosis. Sudden severe thoracic pains and shortness of breath.



FINDINGS:
The pulmonary angiography shows no evidence of contrast medium at the origin of the left pulmonary artery (discontinuity of main branch) unlike the right pulmonary artery which shows a proper contrast.



DIAGNOSIS:
Fulminant pulmonary embolism caused by deep venous thrombosis in a lower limb.


Web resources:

1) Angiologie online
2) AHC-Consilium
3) AWMF
4) Jend
5) Harvard
6) Pneumologie.com

 

 




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