Acute massive pulmonary embolism: Role of the cardiac surgeon

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 430-433

  Sadeghi, Alireza ^a   Brevetti, Gregory R ^a,b   Kim, Sanghyun ^a   Burack, Joshua H ^a   Genovese, Mark H ^a   Distant, Dale A ^a   Kodavatiganti, Ramesh ^a   Lowery, Robert C ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolectomy; Emergencies; Pulmonary embolism diagnosis therapy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CYANOSIS; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; OXYGEN SATURATION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; REVIEW; TACHYPNEA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 24944468329     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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