• Medicina clinica · Jul 2024

    Case Reports

    Catheter directed therapy in high-risk pulmonary embolism: Analysis of 9 cases.

    • Sonia Pascual García, Ana Castell Herrera, Juan Julian Cuesta Pérez, Adriana Rodriguez Perojo, Araceli Abad Fernández, and Maria Teresa Río Ramirez.
    • Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Getafe, Madrid, España. Electronic address: spascualgarcia@salud.madrid.org.
    • Med Clin (Barc). 2024 Jul 2.

    BackgroundMechanical thrombectomy is a useful technique in patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism. It is indicated as an alternative to systemic fibrinolysis when it is contraindicated or as an adjuvant therapy when it fails.ObjectiveTo describe clinical characteristics, evolution and survival of patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism who have undergone mechanical thrombectomy.MethodSingle-center retrospective descriptive study of consecutive patients who underwent mechanical thrombectomy. Demographic, clinical and survival variables were analyzed.Results9 patients were included (56% men, 44% women). All patients had pulmonary artery pressure assessed using a Swan-Ganz catheter before thrombectomy. The median pulmonary artery pressure before the procedure was 46mmHg (51-38mmHg). Systemic fibrinolysis was also performed in 5 cases, in 2 of them in the setting of cardiorespiratory arrest, without hemorrhagic complications. No patient died during hospitalization. Survival one month after the procedure was 100%.ConclusionsIn our series, mechanical thrombectomy is a useful technique as an alternative to systemic fibrinolysis or as an adjuvant therapy to it.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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