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Case Reports
Successful catheter-directed thrombolysis of a massive pulmonary embolism in a patient after recent pneumonectomy.
- Kyungmouk S Lee, Akhilesh K Sista, Oren A Friedman, James M Horowitz, Jeffrey L Port, and David C Madoff.
- Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
- Clin Imaging. 2015 Jan 1;39(1):140-3.
AbstractMassive pulmonary embolism (PE) after major thoracic surgery is an uncommon but life-threatening event that is challenging to manage. At present, the treatment of acute PE is either anticoagulation with or without systemic thrombolytic therapy. We report a case of a 65-year-old female with recent left pneumonectomy who developed a massive PE. The patient was successfully and safely treated with catheter-directed thrombolysis. To our knowledge, this is the first patient treated in this fashion.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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