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Chest radiograph demonstrating enlarged central pulmonary arteries and diminished peripheral pulmonary vascular marking.. Abbreviations: AP, anterior-posterior; R, right.
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The chest radiograph showed enlarged central pulmonary arteries and diminished peripheral pulmonary vascular marking with no active lung lesions (Figure 1).
Transthoracic echocardiogram showing (left) right heart dilatation and (right) pulmonary hypertension.
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Pulmonary CT angiography demonstrates bilateral saddle pulmonary thromboemboli with right ventricle dilatation.
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Thrombuses removed from the left and right pulmonary arteries at the time of surgery.
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Surgery was successful and large clots were removed from the pulmonary artery system (Figure 4).