Clinical outcomes of acute pulmonary embolectomy as the first-line treatment for massive and submassive pulmonary embolism: a single-centre study in China

Clinical outcomes of acute pulmonary embolectomy as the first-line treatment for massive and submassive pulmonary embolism: a single-centre study in China

Abstract Background Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the most critical cardiovascular diseases. PE treatment ranges from anticoagulation, and systemic thrombolysis to surgical embolectomy and catheter embolectomy. Surgical pulmonary embolectmy (SPE) indications and outcomes are still controve...

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Main Authors: Wang QiMin, Chen LiangWan, Chen DaoZhong, Qiu HanFan, Huang ZhongYao, Dai XiaoFu, Huang XueShan, Lin Feng, Chen HuaBin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Subjects:
Acute pulmonary embolism
Surgical pulmonary embolectomy
Surgical embolectomy
massive pulmonary embolism
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13019-020-01364-z

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