A Patient with Class III Obesity and a Body Mass Index of 70.1 kg/m² Requiring Pulmonary Artery Catheterization to Confirm the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension

Hiroya Hagiwara; Masayuki Akatsuka; Kanako Takahashi; Asami Yoshinaka; Shuji Yamamoto

doi:10.12659/AJCR.939383

07 June 2023: Articles

A Patient with Class III Obesity and a Body Mass Index of 70.1 kg/m Requiring Pulmonary Artery Catheterization to Confirm the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension

Management of emergency care

Hiroya Hagiwara ^A , Masayuki Akatsuka ^A* , Kanako Takahashi ^B , Asami Yoshinaka ^B , Shuji Yamamoto ^D

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.939383

Am J Case Rep 2023; 24:e939383

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Figure 2. Chest computed tomography (CT). (A) CT of pulmonary field striations shows that there are no findings of ground-glass opacity and there are heavy subcutaneous fats. There is no infiltrative shadow, pleural effusion, or atelectasis. (B) Contrast-enhanced CT shows that there is no thrombus in the pulmonary artery.

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A Patient with Class III Obesity and a Body Mass Index of 70.1 kg/m Requiring Pulmonary Artery Catheterization to Confirm the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension

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