Annals of Vascular Diseases
Online ISSN : 1881-6428
Print ISSN : 1881-641X
ISSN-L : 1881-641X
CASE REPORTS
Pulmonary Embolectomy for Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Word of Caution
Tomohiko Inui Keiichi IshidaHiroki KohnoKaoru MatsuuraHideki UedaYusaku TamuraMichiko WatanabeYuichi InageYasunori YakitaGoro Matsumiya
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2020 年 13 巻 1 号 p. 96-99

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Pulmonary embolectomy is an effective treatment of acute pulmonary embolism (APE) but not for chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. We described surgical experience of two patients with APE in preexistent unidentified chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. One patient who presented with severe hypoxia but stable hemodynamics underwent successful pulmonary endarterectomy for proximal organized thrombus instead of pulmonary embolectomy. The other patient who required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe hypoxia developed right heart failure because of residual distal organized thrombus after pulmonary embolectomy. Clinical and radiographical presentation of APE in chronic pulmonary thromboembolism mimics APE, and thus, candidates of pulmonary embolectomy should be carefully selected.

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