Eisenmenger syndrome
Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos, Luiz Alberto Benvenuti
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2017.006
Autops Case Rep, vol.7, n1, p.5-7, 2017
Abstract
Figure. A and B - Gross examination of the heart. A - Opened right cardiac chambers. The asterisk marks the atrial septal defect located at the fossa ovalis (so-called secundum defect); B - The right ventricle hypertrophy and pulmonary artery trunk (PT) dilation with atherosclerotic plaques; C and D - Macroscopic findings of the lungs; C - The dilation and atherosclerosis of the pulmonary artery (PA) (arrowhead points to a plaque) and its branches; D - PA thrombosis (white arrowhead). TV = tricuspid valve.
Keywords
Image in Focus
Publication date:
03/31/2017