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• TITLE: Life-Threatening Pulmonary Embolism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management

  AUTHORS: Omar M. Lattouf, Kenneth Leeper, Heval Kelli

  KEYWORDS: Cardiopulmonary Bypass; Embolectomy; Pulmonary Embolism/Surgery

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol.3 No.6, October 7, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Current treatment of life threatening venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) has been based on general concepts dating to the early 1900s. In this manuscript a general overview of current diagnostic and therapeutic methods of VTE is presented along with the Emory University Affiliated Hospitals’ experience of the surgical treatment of life threatening VTE. We retrospectively analyzed the data of twenty-seven consecutive patients who underwent pulmonary embolectomy on cardiopulmonary bypass from January 1998 through April 2010. Our results showed successful outcomes after urgent or emergent surgical pulmonary embolectomy. It encourages the choice of an early and aggressive surgical approach for large pulmonary emboli in hemodynamically unstable patients.