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ArticleJournal of medical case reports2020

Bilateral pulmonary embolism while receiving tranexamic acid: a case report.

Ezekiel Oluwasayo Ijaopo, Ruth Oluwasolape Ijaopo, Sampson Adjei

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Article in Journal of medical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ezekiel Oluwasayo IjaopoEast Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, UK. eijaopo@yahoo.com.
Ruth Oluwasolape IjaopoUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TH, UK.
Sampson AdjeiEast Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, UK.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · GBWilliam Harvey Hospital · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe present a case of a suspected tranexamic acid-related bilateral pulmonary embolism in a healthy and active middle-aged woman who was receiving tranexamic acid for menorrhagia with no other known significant risk factors for thromboembolism. CASE PRESENTATION: A 46-year-old Asian woman who was usually fit and well with no remarkable past medical history except for menorrhagia of 1-year duration for which she was receiving tranexamic acid presented to our accident and emergency department with a 2-week history of intermittent pleuritic central chest pain. She was reviewed and discharged to home with a diagnosis of musculoskeletal pain on two hospital visits because she had no significant risk factors for thromboembolism and her workup investigation results for pulmonary embolism and other differential diagnoses were largely unremarkable. On her third visit to the emergency ambulatory clinic with recurring symptoms of pleuritic chest pain, a pulmonary computed tomographic angiogram confirmed bilateral subsegmental pulmonary embolism.

conclusionThis case report reinforces the possible increased risk of thromboembolism in patients receiving tranexamic acid.

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MenorrhagiaPulmonary EmbolismTranexamic AcidChest PainEmergency Service, HospitalFemaleHumansMiddle AgedTranexamic AcidAntifibrinolytic therapyCase reportPulmonary embolismTranexamic acidVenous thromboembolism

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PMID33158458
PMCPMC7648296
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