[Case report: acute cardiac arrest 3 days after hemihepatectomy]

We report a patient who presents pulmonary embolism three days after right hemihepatectomy because of colorectal metastasis. During two hours of successful resuscitation 50mg rt-plasminogen-activator are administered. Unfortunately the patient develops bleeding complications: an intraabdominal bleeding needs to be operated twice; intracerebral bleeding is followed by intracerebral edema. After a very prolonged intensive care treatment of 55 days the patient is discharged to a neurologic recreation centre. One year later she is doing fine beside a little cognitive deficit.