Pulmonary embolectomy: Recommendation for early surgical intervention

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-266

  Carvalho, Enisa M ^a   MacEdo, Francisco Igor B ^a   Panos, Anthony L ^a   Ricci, Marco ^a   Salerno, Tomas A ^a  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DILATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSFUNCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLECTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951276106     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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