A 35-year-old hypertension patient has the following CXR in annual medical checkup. What does it show?
Left ventricular hypertrophy
Pulmonary artery hypertension
Coarctation of aorta
Cor pulmonale
Ans. C. Coarctation of aortaNotice the following radiographic features:a. Normal vascularityb. Cardiomegalyc. Left ventricular prominenced. "3" sign; formed by pre-stenotic dilatation of aortic arch, indentation at the site of coarctation and post stenotic dilatation of descending Aorta.
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