Large ascending aortic aneurysm causing compression of the right pulmonary artery

Intraoperative TEE image of the ascending aorta in short-axis in a patient with a 9-cm-diameter ascending aortic aneurysm causing a mediastinal mass effect and compression of the right pulmonary artery.

RPA: right pulmonary artery; Ao: ascending aorta; TEE: transesophageal echocardiography.

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