Acute pulmonary embolectomy three days following a coronary artery bypass graft procedure

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 294-297

  Kuklinski, D ^a   Tevaearai, H T ^a,b   Eckstein, F S ^a   Carrel, T P ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary bypass; Coronary artery bypass grafts; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; APROTININ; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROTAMINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DYSPNEA; EMBOLECTOMY; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STERNOTOMY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247549712     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0703500224     Document Type: Article

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