• A & A case reports · Aug 2015

    Case Reports

    Anesthetic Management for Resection of Bilateral Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma.

    • Danny Hoogma, Bart Meyns, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Marc Van de Velde, Carlo Missant, and Steffen Rex.
    • From the Departments of *Anesthesiology, and †Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ‡Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; and §Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
    • A A Case Rep. 2015 Aug 15;5(4):64-8.

    AbstractWe describe a patient who presented with a bilateral pulmonary artery sarcoma, initially treated as pulmonary embolism, that necessitated concomitant pulmonary endarterectomy and pneumonectomy. We reviewed the anesthetic management used for this procedure, which bears many similarities to the management of patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Right ventricular failure, pulmonary hemorrhage, and cerebral ischemia due to circulatory arrest are life-threatening perioperative complications. The anesthesiologist can play a key role in the prevention (or timely recognition and treatment) of these perioperative complications by establishing adequate hemodynamic, echocardiographic, and neurologic monitoring and by optimizing cardiopulmonary function and coagulation.

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