TY - JOUR
T1 - Surgical embolectomy for paradoxical cerebral embolism with massive pulmonary embolism
AU - Hattori, Kaoru
AU - Daitoku, Kazuyuki
AU - Taniguchi, Satoshi
AU - Fukuda, Ikuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery.
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - The patient was a 68-year-old woman with a history of multiple cerebral emboli. The patient presented with dysarthria, dysphagia, and left facial paralysis. Emergent MRI demonstrated multiple emboli in the brain stem and left occipital lobe. Echocardiography and chest CT demonstrated floating emboli entrapped in the foramen ovale and pulmonary emboli in both main pulmonary arteries. Emergent pulmonary embolectomy and extraction of the emboli on the foramen ovale were successfully performed without neurological exacerbation.
AB - The patient was a 68-year-old woman with a history of multiple cerebral emboli. The patient presented with dysarthria, dysphagia, and left facial paralysis. Emergent MRI demonstrated multiple emboli in the brain stem and left occipital lobe. Echocardiography and chest CT demonstrated floating emboli entrapped in the foramen ovale and pulmonary emboli in both main pulmonary arteries. Emergent pulmonary embolectomy and extraction of the emboli on the foramen ovale were successfully performed without neurological exacerbation.
KW - Cerebral embolism
KW - Paradoxical embolism
KW - Pulmonary embolectomy
KW - Pulmonary embolism
KW - Venous thromboembolism
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U2 - 10.1007/s11748-019-01087-6
DO - 10.1007/s11748-019-01087-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 30955168
AN - SCOPUS:85071729194
SN - 1863-6705
VL - 68
SP - 385
EP - 388
JO - General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
JF - General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
IS - 4
ER -