Idiopathic pulmonary vein thrombosis: An unexpected cause of respiratory distress and acute heart failure. A case report and review of the literature

Opasich, 2001, Precipitating factors and decision-making processes of short-term worsening heart failure despite “optimal” treatment (from the IN-CHF Registry), Am J Cardiol, 88, 382, 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)01683-6 Yataco, 2004, Pulmonary venous thrombosis and infarction complicating pulmonary venous stenosis following radiofrequency ablation, Respir Care, 49, 1525 Nelson, 2000, Pulmonary infarction resulting from metastatic osteogenic sarcoma with pulmonary venous tumor thrombus, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 174, 531, 10.2214/ajr.174.2.1740531 Genta, 2003, Pulmonary vein thrombosis after bilobectomy and development of collateral circulation, Thorax, 58, 550, 10.1136/thorax.58.6.550 Takeuchi, 2014, High prevalence of pulmonary vein thrombi in elderly patients with chest pain, which has relationships with aging associated diseases, IJC Heart Vessels, 4, 129, 10.1016/j.ijchv.2014.05.006 Saad, 2003, Pulmonary vein stenosis after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: emergence of a new clinical syndrome, Ann Intern Med, 138, 634, 10.7326/0003-4819-138-8-200304150-00010 Yang, 2007, Irreversible intrapulmonary vascular changes after pulmonary vein stenosis complicating catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, Cardiovasc Pathol, 16, 51, 10.1016/j.carpath.2006.07.007 Chuang-Chi, 2015, Pulmonary venous obstruction in cancer patients, J Oncol, 2015, 210916 Chaaya, 2017, Pulmonary vein thrombosis: a recent systematic review, Cureus, 9, e993 Braun, 2014, Haemoptysis due to pulmonary venous stenosis, Eur Respir Rev, 23, 170, 10.1183/09059180.00003713 Selvidge, 1999, Idiopathic pulmonary vein thrombosis: detection by CT and MR imaging, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 172, 1639, 10.2214/ajr.172.6.10350306 Bhaskar, 2016, Pulmonary vein thrombosis: it’s not always pulmonary embolism, J Am Coll Cardiol, 67 Mumoli, 2012, Idiopathic pulmonary vein thrombosis, J Emerg Med, 42, 182, 10.1016/j.jemermed.2010.03.019 Takeuchi, 2015, A pulmonary vein thrombus in a patient with autonomic nervous dysfunction, IJC Heart Vasc, 8, 37, 10.1016/j.ijcha.2015.05.001 Iacobellis, 2011, Epicardial adipose tissue: emerging physiological, pathophysiological and clinical features, Trends Endocrinol Metab, 22, 450, 10.1016/j.tem.2011.07.003 Kluge, 2004, Decreased pulmonary perfusion in pulmonary vein stenosis after radiofrequency ablation: assessment with dynamic magnetic resonance perfusion imaging, Chest, 126, 428, 10.1378/chest.126.2.428