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ArticleOxford medical case reports2016

Saddle pulmonary embolism: right ventricular strain an indicator for early surgical approach.

Vinod Namana, Sabah Siddiqui, Ram Balasubramanian, Rajeswer Sarasam, Vijay Shetty

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Article in Oxford medical case reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vinod NamanaDepartment of Cardiology , Maimonides Medical Center , Brooklyn, NY , USA.
Sabah SiddiquiDepartment of Medicine , Maimonides Medical Center , Brooklyn, NY , USA.
Ram BalasubramanianDepartment of Cardiology , Maimonides Medical Center , Brooklyn, NY , USA.
Rajeswer SarasamDepartment of Medicine , Baystate Medical Center , Springfield, MA , USA.
Vijay ShettyDepartment of Cardiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Maimonides Medical Center · USBaystate Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current mainstay treatment for pulmonary embolism (PE) includes oral anticoagulation, thrombolytic therapy, catheter embolectomy and acute surgical embolectomy. Surgical embolectomy is reserved for hemodynamically unstable patients (cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest) and contraindication to thrombolytic therapy. We report a case of saddle PE in a young female with echocardiographic signs of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction who underwent early acute surgical embolectomy with a positive outcome. It would be beneficial to use bedside echocardiography even in hemodynamically stable patients to determine RV strain as this could act as an early indicator suggesting the escalation of therapy.

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PMCPMC4887829
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