Surgical removal of a massive pulmonary clot has, on rare occasions, been spectacularly successful.
At the hospital, doctors diagnosed a massive pulmonary embolism, which occurs when part of a blood clot breaks off and is carried through the circulatory system into the vessels of the lungs.
She could not afford necessary cataract operations or medical treatment for swollen legs, and when she suffered a massive pulmonary embolism in 1999, she was so tired of a life gone wrong, she did not even bother dialing 911.
Fig. 13 CT scan of massive pulmonary embolism.
Suddenly, she developed massive pulmonary edema with cardiogenic shock requiring mechanical ventilation and dobutamine infusion.
S104 Acute massive pulmonary embolism rescued by veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Massive pulmonary embolism (MPE) is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the developed world.
A49 A case report of massive pulmonary embolism; a multidisciplinary approach.
To assess the potential benefit ofthrombolysis in patients with massive pulmonary embolism (PE) withstable hemodynamics and right ventricular dysfunction.
A spectrum of disease severity exists, ranging from subclinical to massive pulmonary embolism, which is life-threatening.
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan revealing a massive pulmonary tumor embolism (circle) occluding the right pulmonary artery.
