PULMONARY EMBOLECTOMY RE-EVALUATED

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 63  (1) , 18-24
Abstract
Patients [42] who had sustained massive pulmonary embolism were treated by emergency pulmonary embolectomy using normothermic venous inflow occlusion circulatory arrest. Of 26 patients who had not had cardiac arrest before surgery 25 survived the operation, but 7 died from various causes. Of 16 patients who had sustained cardiac arrest, 1 survived. In all, 19 patients (45.2%) survived.