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Immediate non-traumatic postmortem computed tomographic demonstration of myocardial intravascular gas of the left ventricle: effects from cardiopulmonary resuscitation

An 87-year-old man was found in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. Despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for over 1 hour by emergency technicians and physicians, the patient died. Immediate postmortem computed tomography showed cardiovascular gas in the right atrium, right ventricle, and left...

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Autores principales: Okuda, Takahisa, Shiotani, Seiji, Kobayashi, Tomoya, Kohno, Mototsugu, Hayakawa, Hideyuki, Kikuchi, Kazunori, Suwa, Kunio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing AG 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23519017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-86
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Sumario:An 87-year-old man was found in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. Despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for over 1 hour by emergency technicians and physicians, the patient died. Immediate postmortem computed tomography showed cardiovascular gas in the right atrium, right ventricle, and left ventricle. Cardiovascular gas in the left ventricle was located in the myocardium and appeared as linear or branch-shaped suggesting the presence of myocardial intravascular gas. This is the first report describing the appearance and significance of myocardial intravascular gas of the left ventricle as a CPR-related change.