Off-pump pulmonary embolectomy: a complication of shoulder amputation

Sajjad M Yousafzai,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.025

Sajjad M Yousafzai¹, Emad Bukhari¹, Baha Fadel¹, Charles C Canver²

¹King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, King Faisal Heart Institute, Riyadh, Suudi Arabistan
²Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Near East University School of Medicine, Lefkosa, Kuzey Kıbrıs TC

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.025

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Acute tumor embolism complicating the course of elective shoulder amputation for high grade pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma caused intraoperative cardiac arrest and was salvaged successfully by emergency pulmonary embolectomy without utilizing cardiopulmonary bypass.

Keywords : Echocardiography; embolectomy; pulmonary artery; pulmonary embolism/diagnosis/etiology/surgery

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