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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152020000100012</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Aneurisma de Arteria Pulmonar como causa de muerte repentina: Reporte de un caso y revisión de literatura]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm as a cause of sudden death: Case report and literature review]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rodríguez Rojas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Greivin]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Leiva Gabriel]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Kevin]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Marín Delgado]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Astrid]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social Hospital Rafael A. Calderón Guardia ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San José ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San José ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San José ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>37</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>12</fpage>
<lpage>17</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000100012&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000100012&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000100012&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen  Objetivo:  Correlacionar las generalidades de la etiología, patogenia, presentación clínica y métodos diagnósticos actuales disponibles para el aneurisma de arteria pulmonar con la muerte súbita o repentina de estos pacientes.  Materiales y métodos:  Se realizaron revisión del expediente clínico, análisis de la autopsia y revisión bibliográfica.  Presentación de caso: Se presenta el caso de un masculino de 39 años con antecedente de hipertensión pulmonar que consultó por disnea súbita. Se abordó el caso como un tromboembolismo pulmonar. El paciente presentó una evolución clínica tórpida y falleció. La autopsia reveló un aneurisma de la arteria pulmonar.  Conclusión: Los aneurismas de la arteria pulmonar son poco frecuentes. La presentación clínica es inespecífica. Los métodos diagnósticos más fiables son la sospecha clínica y los métodos de imagen, sin embargo siguen siendo motivo de muerte súbita y repentina; cuyo hallazgo es postmorten.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract  Objective:  Correlate the generalities of etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation and current diagnostic methods available for pulmonary artery aneurysm with sudden death of these patients.  Materials and methods:  Review of medical record, autopsy analysis and scientific literature.  Case presentation:  A 39-year-old male with a history of pulmonary hypertension, who consulted for sudden dyspnea. The case was approached as a pulmonary thromboembolism. The patient presented bad clinical evolution and died. Autopsy revealed an aneurysm of the pulmonary artery.  Conclusion:  Aneurysms of the pulmonary artery are rare. The clinical presentation is nonspecific. The most reliable diagnostic methods are clinical suspicion and imaging methods, however they remain a cause of sudden death; whose finding is postmortem.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Hipertensión Pulmonar]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Disnea]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Hemoptisis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Aneurysm]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Pulmonar Hypertension]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Dispnea]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Hemoptysis]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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