Pulmonary Vascular Diseases

作者：Cummings Kristopher W; Bhalla Sanjeev^*

来源：Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2015, 36(2): 235-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.ccm.2015.02.007

• Acute pulmonary embolism
• Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation
• Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
• Granulomatosis with polyangitis
• Microscopic polyangitis

Pulmonary vascular diseases encompass a large and diverse group of underlying pathologies ranging from venous thromboembolism to congenital malformations to inflammatory vasculitides. As a result, patients can present either acutely with dyspnea and chest pain or chronically with dyspnea on exertion, hypoxia, and right heart failure. Imaging, particularly with multidetector CT, plays a key role in the evaluation and management of patients with suspected pulmonary vascular disease and, given the widespread routine use of high-quality CT pulmonary angiography, it is imperative that radiologists be familiar these pathologies.

• 出版日期2015-6