Thoracic aortic aneurysms can rarely present with heart failure and acute pulmonary edema due to mechanical compression of cardiac structures.
Patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) are mostly asymptomatic and TAA is rarely related to heart failure (HF). We report the case of an 80-year-old female patient, with type A TAA without dissection, with right pulmonary artery and left atrium compression, who presented with HF, preserved ejection fraction and acute pulmonary edema.
Jorge et al. (Thu,) studied this question.