-
Review Case Reports
[Bilateral pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. A case report and review of the literature].
- X Ruyra Baliarda, J Montiel Serrano, E Blasco Colmenares, J M Gil Jaurena, M L Cámara Rosell, J M Padró Fernández, and J M Caralps Riera.
- Servicio de Cirugía Cardíaca, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona.
- Rev Esp Cardiol. 1995 Oct 1;48(10):693-6.
AbstractA 39-years-old male patient with chronic venous insufficiency, deep venous thrombosis and recurrent pulmonary embolism in the past medical history. After syncopal event was diagnosed of bilateral chronic pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure. Fibrinolytic treatment was no effective therapeutic modality. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, bilateral pulmonary thromboendarterectomy with extension into lobe arteries, plus insertion of caval filter was performed. We present our experience with this case and a review of the literature.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..