title: [Extensive acute pulmonary embolism: fragmentation treatment with a rotatable pigtail catheter].
abstract: A 58-year-old patient with extensive pulmonary embolism complicated by cardiogenic shock and contraindications to thrombolysis was treated by mechanical embolus fragmentation using a rotatable pigtail catheter system. Considerable recanalization of the left pulmonary arteries was rapidly achieved with relative ease of instrumentation. Subsequently, the hemodynamic condition stabilized.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Radiologische Diagnostik, Klinikum der RWTH Aachen.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schmitz-Rode
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alzen
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Spetzger
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Günther
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D017128:Embolectomy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Ausgedehnte akute Lungenembolie: Fragmentations-behandlung mit dem Pigtail-Rotationskatheter.