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Aneurysm of aberrant right subclavian artery (arteria lusoria) presenting as cardiac dyspnoea
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- defects
- congenital
- airway obstruction
- cough/mechanisms/pharmacology
- imaging/CT MRI
- perception of asthma/breathlessness
- rare lung diseases
A 75-year-old Caucasian man presented with a 3-month history of progressive dyspnoea, unrelated to position, with an exercise tolerance of 100 m. He had experienced thrombolysis following an inferior myocardial infarction 8 years previously.
Initial diagnosis was cardiac dyspnoea; transthoracic echocardiogram showed moderate left ventricular dysfunction without significant progression from previous studies. Spirometry demonstrated fixed plateaued flow during forced inspiration and forced expiration. Cardiac MRI …
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