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DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1185392
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Simultaneous Pulmonary Embolectomy and Aortic Root Replacement
Publikationsverlauf
received September 15, 2008
Publikationsdatum:
14. Dezember 2009 (online)
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Abstract
Massive pulmonary embolism (PE) is characterized by hypotension and cardiogenic shock due to right ventricular failure, and is associated with a high mortality rate. In this case study, we report a simultaneous pulmonary embolectomy and aortic root replacement in a 71-year-old woman with a known ascending aortic aneurysm who sustained a massive PE following a VATS left upper lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer.
Key words
Aortic disease - cardiovascular surgery - pulmonary embolectomy - aortic root replacement
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Dr. MD Benjamin Wei
NY Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia
General Surgery
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United States
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