[Right ventricular dysfunction and ischemia in pulmonary embolism]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2004 Aug;57(8):784-6.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Patients with pulmonary embolism and right ventricle dysfunction (determined with clinical, hemodynamic or echocardiographic methods) are a subgroup at high risk for complications. One of the pathogenic factors of right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary embolism is myocardial ischemia, usually secondary to hemodynamic overload, and sometimes worsened by underlying coronary artery disease. We described a patient with pulmonary embolism and dyskinesia of the right ventricular free wall, related to chronic atherosclerotic occlusion of the right coronary artery proximal to the acute marginal branches that irrigate the free wall.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Ischemia / diagnostic imaging
  • Myocardial Ischemia / etiology*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / complications*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiography
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / etiology*
  • Ventricular Function, Right / physiology