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Reports of four surgical treatments of acute pulmonary embolism with a floating thrombus in the right atrium
- Source :
- General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 59:705-708
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) is a serious disease. Recently, multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has proven to be valuable in detecting APE and deep vein thrombosis. APE is classified as massive, submassive, and nonmassive. The incidence of submassive APE and the number of therapeutic approaches for clinically diagnosed critical submassive APE have both increased. However, most strategies for submassive APE have been conservative, e.g., transvenous catheter pulmonary embolectomy, and there are few reports on surgical pulmonary embolectomy. We examined the surgical outcomes in four cases of submassive APE with a floating thrombus in the right atrium (RA) from August 2003 to July 2008. All patients appeared to have no neurological complications and showed an event-free survival of up to 65 months (37 ± 25 months). Surgical pulmonary embolectomy was effective for submassive APE with a floating thrombus in the RA.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Heart Diseases
viruses
Deep vein
Embolectomy
stomatognathic system
Surgical oncology
Humans
Medicine
Heart Atria
Floating thrombus
Aged
Ultrasonography
business.industry
Thrombosis
social sciences
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Pulmonary embolism
Cardiac surgery
Surgery
Radiography
body regions
Catheter
Treatment Outcome
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cardiothoracic surgery
Acute Disease
cardiovascular system
Female
Radiology
Pulmonary Embolism
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18636713 and 18636705
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....25e44032165129f4a07f8372f6ac44a4