Fatal Coronary Air Embolism during Positive Pressure Ventilation

Fatal paradoxical air embolism during liver transplantation.

We describe a case of fatal paradoxical coronary air embolism during liver transplantation. The literature on the diagnosis and prophylaxis of paradoxical air embolism during liver transplantation is reviewed and discussed.

Fatal paradoxical coronary embolism.

Introduction Paradoxical embolism, the passage of embolic material from the venous to the systemic circulation through an intracardiac defect, most commonly presents as a cerebral event such as a stroke or transient ischaemic episode, or less frequently as a peripheral arterial occlusion. A case is presented of a patient who suffered a fatal myocardial infarction due to occlusion of both corona...

Non-fatal paradoxical air embolism.

Iatrogenic and fatal arterial air embolism during the CT scan.

Systemic and fatal arterial air embolism during the computed tomography (CT) scan is rarely reported in English-based literature. Iatrogenic air embolism happening during the CT scan is often related to the injector, usually venous air embolism and asymptomatic. We report one fatal and extensive systemic arterial air embolism because of one error that happened during a brain CT scan. The mechan...

Beware of positive pressure: coronary artery air embolism following percutaneous lung biopsy

Patients undergoing percutaneous lung biopsy are at risk of developing a systemic air embolism. Air embolism may manifest as a catastrophic iatrogenic event with ischemic insult to the end organs, with sites of least resistance such as coronary and cerebral circulation the most susceptible. We review the available literature and present a case of iatrogenic air embolism during computed tomograp...