Intraoperative massive pulmonary embolism during coronary artery bypass grafting.
A 66-year-old female underwent elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Massive pulmonary embolism developed intraoperatively shortly after weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass. A 25-cm large venous embolus was extracted from pulmonary artery by consequently performed open pulmonary embolectomy on the beating heart. Source of extracted embolus was not postoperatively revealed. Patient remained angina-free and with no evidence of pulmonary hypertension at the 6-month follow-up.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Olomouc and Palacky University School of Medicine, I.P. Pavlova 6, 775 20 Olomouc, Czech Republic. martin.simek@c-mail.cz
Martin
M
Simek
Petr
P
Nemec
Mojmír
M
Cermák
Katerina
K
Prikrylová