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(Chest. 1956;29:225-229.)
© 1956 American College of Chest Physicians

Embolic Obstruction of Major Pulmonary Arteries Producing Chronic Cor Pulmonale

JAMES R. BARR M.D., F.C.C.P.1 and FRED H. KNOX JR. M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 The Cardiovascular Section of the Medical Service of the Veterans Administration Medical Teaching Group (Kennedy) Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.

1. Occasionally patients survive embolism to major pulmonary arteries and subsequently develop chronic cor pulmonale due to occlusion of these vessels.

2. The appearance of right-sided congestive failure in the absence of other obvious causes should suggest this syndrome in the differential diagnosis.

3. Medical treatment has been unsatisfactory and only temporarily palliative at best. A consideration of surgical embolectomy may be entertained once the diagnosis has been established.






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