title: Early pulmonary embolectomy for acute pulmonary embolus: an operation whose time has come.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Boston Medical Center and the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Harold L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Lazar
authors.forename: Harrison W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Farber
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D017128:Embolectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right