Dynamic left main coronary artery compression by a dilated pulmonary artery in a patient with pulmonary hypertension—a case report demonstrating the significance of multimodular imaging
Julia S Lebbink, Matthijs Smits, Bas L van der Hoeven, Bastiaan E Schölzel, Jesse Habets, Raheel Ahmed, Marco Angelillis, John Kanakakis, Faris Kadíc · 2026
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High pressure in the lung arteries can swell the main lung vessel until it squeezes the heart's own feed line. Julia Lebbink and co-authors report such a case in a 2026 paper. Their patient, a 63-year-old woman, came in with growing shortness of breath and weakness, but no chest pain.
Scans showed a lung trunk swollen to 62 millimeters. A dye test plus an inner ultrasound found the left main coronary artery squeezed by more than half. Doctors placed a stent to hold the artery open, guided by that inner scan. A week after going home, her function class had clearly improved. The team urges this cause be weighed even without classic pain.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Julia S Lebbink, Matthijs Smits, Bas L van der Hoeven, Bastiaan E Schölzel, Jesse Habets, Raheel Ahmed, Marco Angelillis, John Kanakakis, Faris Kadíc |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |