Pulmonary angiography has been regarded as the gold standard tool for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. However, due to its invasive nature and the development and growing availability of non-invasive diagnostic imaging tests, such as computed tomographic pulmonary angiography, the role of pulmonary angiography in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism has waned rapidly, so that pulmonary angiography has become a state-of-the-art procedure available in a decreasing number of centres. Pulmonary angiography is the definitive diagnostic test, but complications of this procedure, including puncture site prob-lems, cardiac arrhythmia, and cardiac or vessel injury have been reported. However, few cases of cardiac vein rupture during pulmonary angiography have been reported. Here we report on a case of cardiac vein rupture which occurred during pulmo-nary angiography in an 82-year-old woman who underwent pulmonary angiography.

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