title: Pulmonary embolism with myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome and extreme obesity.
abstract: We here report a case of a 53-year-old woman requiring pulmonary embolectomy for acute massive pulmonary embolism caused by a huge uterine myoma compressing veins in the pelvis and extreme obesity. She was also diagnosed as having myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome, a rare disease associated with secondary polycythemia. The polycythemia improved after a hysterectomy which was performed after pulmonary embolectomy.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, 173-8610 Tokyo, Japan. sunosaw@med.nihon-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Unosawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sezai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Niino
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yoshitake
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minami
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D017128:Embolectomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D011086:Polycythemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery