Paradoxical air embolism during orthoptic liver transplantation: diagnosis by transoesophageal echocardiography
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in European Journal of Anaesthesiology
- Vol. 16 (5) , 342-345
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003643-199905000-00013
Abstract
We describe a case of paradoxical air embolism during orthotopic liver transplantation, early diagnosis, using intra-operative transoesophageal echocardiography after a circulatory failure, allowed early management by hyperbaric oxygen therapy.Keywords
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