Pulmonary endarterectomy under intermittent deep hypothermic circulatory arrest | ||
The Egyptian Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia | ||
Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2016 PDF (1.54 M) | ||
DOI: 10.4103/1687-9090.200282 | ||
Authors | ||
Shilpa Tiwari; Rajnish K. Jain; Yogesh Niwariya; Sarika Katiyar | ||
Abstract | ||
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension occurs in very few patients after acute embolism, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is the main and curative treatment. Here we have a patient with a chronic thrombus in the pulmonary artery that required thromboendarterectomy with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. | ||
Keywords | ||
Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest; Endarterectomy; Pulmonary thromboembolism | ||
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