Acute pulmonary thromboembolism is a catastrophic event, especially for hospitalized patients. The prognosis of pulmonary thromboembolism depends on the degree of pulmonary arterial occlusion. The mortality of massive pulmonary embolism is reportedly as high as 25% without cardiopulmonary arrest and 65% with cardiopulmonary arrest. In patients with unstable hemodynamics due to pulmonary thrombo...

introduction: pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of mortality in patients.the mortality rate of this disease can be significantly reduced with appropriate treatment. surgical intervention can be highly effective for the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism. this article presents a report on the experience of acute pulmonary embolectomy. materials and methods: demographic d...

A 62 year-old male presented to the chest pain unit with chest pain and nausea, reporting that the symptoms occurred one hour after dinner. His medical history included a foudroyant event of pulmonary embolism with embolectomy in 2012. Due to clinical deterioration and the history of pulmonary embolism, we decided to perform a contrast computed tomography angiography (CT). We could rule out aor...

The development of acute kidney injury in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) has not been well documented. We report a patient who developed acute oliguria in the setting of massive PE. Catheter embolectomy followed by ultrafiltration resulted in an immediate and dramatic improvement in urine output. Uncharacteristically, serum creatinine did not rise during the oliguric phase for several da...

We report a case of a young patient presenting concomitant pulmonary artery embolism and an intra-aortic thrombus occluding the left subclavian artery due to a patent foramen ovale. This patient was treated under short circulatory arrest and unilateral cerebral perfusion allowing aortic and pulmonary embolectomy and closure of the small PFO. Follow up was uneventful so this case shows a success...

To report a non-fatal case of reperfusion pulmonary edema (RPE) after the removal of a hepatocellular carcinoma embolus, which had caused an acute obstruction of the tricuspid valve and pulmonary vasculature during a hepatic lobectomy. Pulmonary embolism caused by hepatocellular carcinoma embolus is extremely rare, and, in the present case, it was associated with unusual clinical features. A 69...

OBJECTIVE Acute massive pulmonary embolism (PE) is associated with significant mortality rate despite diagnostic and therapeutic advances. The aim of this study was to analyze our clinical outcomes of patients with acute massive PE who underwent emergency surgical pulmonary embolectomy. METHODS This retrospective study included 13 consecutive patients undergoing emergency surgical pulmonary e...