Intraoperative death due to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)-related acute myocardial failure in a patient undergoing laparoscopic splenectomy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 559-561

  Dias Perera, Anton S ^a   Gagné, Daniel J ^a,b   Papasavas, Pavlos K ^a   Geyer, Stanley J ^a   Caushaj, Philip F ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Heart failure; Intramyocardial hemorrhage; Laparoscopic Splenectomy; Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; TTP

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; HEMOGLOBIN; STEROID; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STEROID THERAPY; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VITAL SIGN;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 37549007541     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31814a578a     Document Type: Article

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