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Case Reports
Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a patient with combined pulmonary and systemic embolisation.
- C-H Ko, P Forrest, R D'Souza, and R Qasabian.
- Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. chaobabish1212@yahoo.com.au
- Perfusion. 2013 Mar 1; 28 (2): 138-40.
AbstractWe present a highly unusual case of massive pulmonary embolism with secondary paradoxical systemic embolisation that was successfully resuscitated with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). This enabled subsequent successful bridging to pulmonary embolectomy.
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