Volume 154, Issue 4, Pages e107-e111 (October 2018) A 62-Year-Old Woman With Acute Respiratory Failure and a Painful Right Lower Limb David Lagier, MD, Marine Gaudry, MD, Hubert Lepidi, MD, PhD, Cindy Perron, MD, Catherine Guidon, MD CHEST Volume 154, Issue 4, Pages e107-e111 (October 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.05.036 Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Bilateral pulmonary edema and right-sided pleural effusion on the chest radiograph. CHEST 2018 154, e107-e111DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2018.05.036) Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Long-axis parasternal view with transthoracic echocardiography revealed (A) thickening of the aortic cusps and (B) severe aortic regurgitation with color Doppler imaging. CHEST 2018 154, e107-e111DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2018.05.036) Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Three-dimensional reconstruction of CT angiography (left anterior oblique view) showing the site of thrombosis in the right external iliac artery. Calcified aortic bifurcation and common iliac arteries are shown. Residual perfusion of the right femoral artery results from a branch of the internal iliac artery. CHEST 2018 154, e107-e111DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2018.05.036) Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 4 Pathologic analysis of the aortic valve. Note the bland thrombus (yellow asterisk) to the valvular surface (white asterisk). The valve tissue and the thrombus are devoid of inflammation (hematoxylin-eosin-saffron, original magnification ×25). CHEST 2018 154, e107-e111DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2018.05.036) Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions
Figure 5 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT imaging revealed (A) a retrocardiac hypermetabolic lesion of the right lung and (B) hypermetabolic lesions in the left subclavian lymph nodes. CHEST 2018 154, e107-e111DOI: (10.1016/j.chest.2018.05.036) Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions