Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

We report the case of a 50-year-old woman undergoing elective endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, who developed coma and hemiparesis secondary to severe cerebral artery gas embolism. Despite prompt diagnosis and early hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO(2)) she developed severe cerebral edema...

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Autores principales: Rangappa, Pradeep, Uhde, Britta, Byard, Roger W., Wurm, Alex, Thomas, Peter D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881196
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.56061
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author Rangappa, Pradeep
Uhde, Britta
Byard, Roger W.
Wurm, Alex
Thomas, Peter D.
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description We report the case of a 50-year-old woman undergoing elective endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, who developed coma and hemiparesis secondary to severe cerebral artery gas embolism. Despite prompt diagnosis and early hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO(2)) she developed severe cerebral edema and died within 24 h.
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spelling pubmed-27722392009-11-18 Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography Rangappa, Pradeep Uhde, Britta Byard, Roger W. Wurm, Alex Thomas, Peter D. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report We report the case of a 50-year-old woman undergoing elective endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, who developed coma and hemiparesis secondary to severe cerebral artery gas embolism. Despite prompt diagnosis and early hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO(2)) she developed severe cerebral edema and died within 24 h. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2772239/ /pubmed/19881196 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.56061 Text en © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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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Rangappa, Pradeep
Uhde, Britta
Byard, Roger W.
Wurm, Alex
Thomas, Peter D.
Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
title Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
title_full Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
title_fullStr Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
title_full_unstemmed Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
title_short Fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
title_sort fatal cerebral arterial gas embolism after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881196
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.56061
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