[Clinical-pathologoanatomic analysis of post-operative thromboembolism of pulmonary artery].
Autopsy and clinical data were analysed for 803 surgical patients whose death was due to pulmonary artery thromboembolism (PAT). PAT was diagnosed intravitally in 32% of the deceased. 87% of the patients with PAT symptoms died within 2 hours. 3/4 of PATs developed in uneventful postoperative period, 1/4--in complications. The cause of PAT in 99.3% of cases were thromboses in vena cava inferior. In 88.3% of cases these thromboses ran latently. Frequency of postoperative PAT as a cause of death was 1.4% in 1972-1973, 2.1% in 1990-1991, 1.3% in 1997. The fall of the death rate is explained by introduction of drug prophylaxis of PAT.
Minsk Medical Institute, 220116, Minsk.
A A
AA
Baeshko
A G
AG
Kriuchok
S I
SI
Korsak
V A
VA
Iushkevich
Iu I
IuI
Rogov
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AF
Puchkov
V V
VV
Chaplygina
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology