Excellent outcome after surgical treatment of massive pulmonary embolism in critically ill patients Alexander Kadner, MD, Jürg Schmidli, MD, Florian.

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Excellent outcome after surgical treatment of massive pulmonary embolism in critically ill patients Alexander Kadner, MD, Jürg Schmidli, MD, Florian Schönhoff, MD, Eva Krähenbühl, MD, Franz Immer, MD, Thierry Carrel, MD, Friedrich Eckstein, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 136, Issue 2, Pages 448-451 (August 2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.11.021 Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Embolic clot removed from a patient with bilateral massive pulmonary embolism. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2008 136, 448-451DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.11.021) Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Pre- and postoperative measurement of pulmonary artery pressure. Pre- and postoperative echocardiographic measurements with estimation of the pulmonary artery pressure were performed in 13 patients and demonstrated the reduction of the pulmonary hypertension to half systemic values or less in all of these patients. PAP, Pulmonary artery pressure. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2008 136, 448-451DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.11.021) Copyright © 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions