Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report

A 55-year-old women was diagnosed with Baker’s cyst and underwent open Baker’s cyst excision. She had developed acute pulmonary embolism in the post-operative period. Our case report is to emphasise the sub-clinical concomitant deep vein thrombosis with Baker’s cyst. Such a fatal complication has no...

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Autor principal: Senthil, V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37583525
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.2307.012
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description A 55-year-old women was diagnosed with Baker’s cyst and underwent open Baker’s cyst excision. She had developed acute pulmonary embolism in the post-operative period. Our case report is to emphasise the sub-clinical concomitant deep vein thrombosis with Baker’s cyst. Such a fatal complication has not been reported in literature and preventive measures of pre-operative venous Doppler and post-operative thrombo-prophylaxis can prevent them.
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spelling pubmed-104250042023-08-15 Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report Senthil, V Malays Orthop J Case Report A 55-year-old women was diagnosed with Baker’s cyst and underwent open Baker’s cyst excision. She had developed acute pulmonary embolism in the post-operative period. Our case report is to emphasise the sub-clinical concomitant deep vein thrombosis with Baker’s cyst. Such a fatal complication has not been reported in literature and preventive measures of pre-operative venous Doppler and post-operative thrombo-prophylaxis can prevent them. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2023-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10425004/ /pubmed/37583525 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.2307.012 Text en © 2023 Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA). All Rights Reserved https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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title Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report
title_full Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report
title_fullStr Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report
title_short Acute Pulmonary Embolism Following Baker’s Cyst Excision – A Life Threatening Complication: A Case Report
title_sort acute pulmonary embolism following baker’s cyst excision – a life threatening complication: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37583525
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.2307.012
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