Successful treatment of postoperative massive pulmonary embolism with paradoxal arterial embolism through extracorporeal life support and thrombolysis

Successful treatment of postoperative massive pulmonary embolism with paradoxal arterial embolism through extracorporeal life support and thrombolysis

Pulmonary embolism is a common clinical entity related to high mortality. About 200,000 to 300,000 patients die every year due to pulmonary embolism. The purpose of this article is to describe a case of a patient who on the second postoperative day after undergoing thromboembolectomy of the left fem...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Grapatsas, Vasileios Leivaditis, Paul Zarogoulidis, Zoi Tsilogianni, Sotirios Kotoulas, Christophoros Kotoulas, Efstratios Koletsis, Ilias Stylianos Iliadis, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos, Georgia Trakada, Lemonia Veletza, Anastasios Kallianos, Theodora Tsiouda, Christoforos Kosmidis, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, Haidong Huang, Rainer Haussmann, Erich Haussmann, Manfred Dahm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007117303441

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