A 60-Year-Old Woman with a 6-Week History of Shortness of Breath and Intermittent Chest Pain Due to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Disease Undetected by Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA) and Diagnosed by Ventilation-Perfusion Imaging

Yuuki Yanagisawa; Wissam Hassan Ibrahim; Narendra Kumar; John Cooper

doi:10.12659/AJCR.938041

17 November 2022 : Case report United Kingdom

A 60-Year-Old Woman with a 6-Week History of Shortness of Breath and Intermittent Chest Pain Due to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Disease Undetected by Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA) and Diagnosed by Ventilation-Perfusion Imaging

Unusual clinical course

Yuuki Yanagisawa^1ABDEF*, Wissam Hassan Ibrahim

^1EF, Narendra Kumar

^2A, John Cooper^2E

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.938041

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e938041

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Figure 2. Axial slices of the computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (CTPA) in the arterial phase showing (A) no evidence of significant pulmonary embolism in the main pulmonary artery or the lobar, segmental, and subsegmental branches of the pulmonary tree; and (B) full vascularization of the right upper lobe.

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A 60-Year-Old Woman with a 6-Week History of Shortness of Breath and Intermittent Chest Pain Due to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Disease Undetected by Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA) and Diagnosed by Ventilation-Perfusion Imaging

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