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Survival from massive intraoperative pulmonary thromboembolism during orthotopic liver transplantation
1University of Birmingham Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|August 6, 1998
Abstract:
We report a case of massive pulmonary embolism occurring at the time of graft reperfusion in a patient undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation. The clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolus was aided by on-table echocardiography. Cardiopulmonary bypass and surgical embolectomy prevented her death. We discuss the differential diagnosis, possible aetiology of pulmonary embolism in this context and subsequent management.