Pulmonary embolism with myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome and extreme obesity.
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.
Unosawa
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S
Cardiovascular Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, 173-8610 Tokyo, Japan. sunosaw@med.nihon-u.ac.jp
Hata
M
M
Sezai
A
A
Niino
T
T
Yoshitake
I
I
Minami
K
K
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