Pulmonary Hypertension CT Approach

• Chest
  • Pulmonary Hypertension

• atrial septal bowing
• atrial septal defect
• atrial septum bowing
• bronchial arterial hypertrophy
• bronchomalacia with air trapping
• chronic hypoxia
• chronic pulmonary venous hypertension
• Dilation of inferior vena cava, contrast reflux in inferior vena cava or hepatic veins
• ground glass densities
• hydrostatic pulmonary edema
• increase pulmonary arterial diameter
• intrinsic vascular disease
• minimal pleural effusion
• mosaic lung attenuation
• patent ductus arteriosus
• pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
• right atrial dilation
• right ventricular dilation or hypertrophy
• septal lines
• straightened interventricular septum
• straightening of interventricular septum
• tricuspid regurgitation
• usual interstitial pneumonitis