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ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2011

Reports of four surgical treatments of acute pulmonary embolism with a floating thrombus in the right atrium.

Takashi Ando, Hiroyuki Abe, Tokuichiro Nagata, Yuka Sakurai, Masahide Chikada, Toshiya Kobayashi, Haruo Makuuchi

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Article in General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prevalence, Outcome, and Optimal Management of Free-Floating Right Heart Thrombi in the Context of Pulmonary Embolism, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Takashi AndoDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Sugao-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Hiroyuki Abe
Tokuichiro Nagata
Yuka Sakurai
Masahide Chikada
Toshiya Kobayashi
Haruo Makuuchi
St. Marianna University School of Medicine · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) is a serious disease. Recently, multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has proven to be valuable in detecting APE and deep vein thrombosis. APE is classified as massive, submassive, and nonmassive. The incidence of submassive APE and the number of therapeutic approaches for clinically diagnosed critical submassive APE have both increased. However, most strategies for submassive APE have been conservative, e.g., transvenous catheter pulmonary embolectomy, and there are few reports on surgical pulmonary embolectomy. We examined the surgical outcomes in four cases of submassive APE with a floating thrombus in the right atrium (RA) from August 2003 to July 2008. All patients appeared to have no neurological complications and showed an event-free survival of up to 65 months (37 ± 25 months). Surgical pulmonary embolectomy was effective for submassive APE with a floating thrombus in the RA.

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EmbolectomyAcute DiseaseAdultAgedFemaleHeart AtriaHeart DiseasesHumansMiddle AgedPulmonary EmbolismRadiographyThrombosisTreatment OutcomeUltrasonography

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PMID21984139
OpenAlexW2013909566

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