Dissecção e rotura da artéria pulmonar associada a persistência do canal arterial: relato de um caso

Abstract

The author presents a case of a 13-year old girl with pulmonary trunk dissection and rupture with a cardiac tamponade. There was a ductus arteriosus persistent and a non stenotic bicuspid pulmonary valve. A plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy and severe process of injury and repair in the elastic vessels are present. The significance of medionecrosis in the pathogenesis ot pulmonary dissection is discussed. An analysis of reports in dissecting pulmonary aneurysm reveals a fatal outcome in the vast majority of them, due either to arterial rupture or obstruction.