Surgical Treatment of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism.
Massive pulmonary embolism (MPE) is a life-threatening condition. The management of MPE has changed over the course of the last few years. Since the emergence of thrombolytic therapy, only a few patients remain amenable for surgical treatment. Currently, surgical embolectomy is advised only in very specific indications. This chapter will review the background, history, indications, surgical technique and results of surgical pulmonary embolectomy in patients with MPE.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, 9602, 31096, Israel. z_beckerman@rambam.health.gov.il.
Ziv
Z
Beckerman
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, 9602, 31096, Israel.
Gil
G
Bolotin
D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography; D019468:Disease Management; D004452:Echocardiography; D017128:Embolectomy / Q000266:history / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000266:history / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*
Embolectomy; Hemodynamic; Massive; Pulmonary embolus; Surgery; Thrombolysis