TY - JOUR AU - De Silva, Ravi J. AU - Hosseinpour, Reza AU - Screaton, Nicholas AU - Stoica, Serban AU - Goodwin, Andrew T. PY - 2006 DA - 2006/09/28 TI - Right pulmonary artery occlusion by an acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending aorta JO - Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery SP - 29 VL - 1 IS - 1 AB - We describe the case of a 76-year old female who presented with a Type A aortic dissection requiring repair with an interposition graft and aortic valve replacement. Post-operatively she had clinical features and computerised tomographic images suggestive of a pulmonary embolus and died 24 hours later. The extremely rare finding of intramural thrombus occluding the right pulmonary artery was seen at post mortem. SN - 1749-8090 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-29 DO - 10.1186/1749-8090-1-29 ID - De Silva2006 ER -